Care and Atonement
On a prison hospice in California.
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Trashed
An investigation into how a 19-year-old college freshman ended up buried in a landfill.
Magic Mountain
A trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Paintballing with Hezbollah
A clandestine meeting between Western journalists and Hezbollah fighters in a Beirut strip mall.
What’s Eating the NYPD?
The toll of being a cop on the most successful force in the country.
The William Langewiesche Archive
From shipbreakers in India to a plane crash in Brazil, organized crime in Naples to pirates in the Gulf of Aden—16 stories by a master of narrative non-fiction. Our Langewiesche archive.
The Artistic Animal
Is creativity in our genes? A self-made scholar’s search for the answer.
Neighbors
In 1941, hundreds of Jedwabne’s Jews were massacred by their neighbors.
Rewrite
A man tries to rebuild his life after killing four people in a car crash.
Tech Behind Bars
What can social media do for you when you’re in the clink?
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Inside The Prison System's Illicit Digital World
Inmates technically aren’t permitted to have cell phones. But social media services are chock full of posts made from inside.
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After Years Behind Bars, Can Prisoners Re-Enter A Digital World?
Prisoners emerge not being familiar with smartphones, Spotify, and all sorts of ways that technology now governs how we live and work.
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Can Technology and Prisons Get Along?
A pilot program will allow prisoners to access an intranet on tablets they rent with their commissary accounts. Will it help?
Terrorist or Freedom Fighter?
How one young American veteran got caught in the cobweb of Syrian rebel politics.
The Accident
An essay on a fatal car crash in the author’s youth.
Walking the Tornado Line
Following a storm that took 72 lives in Alabama.
Uniqlones
Tadashi Yanai (“he is like Warren Buffett in Japan”) takes his Uniqlo brand stateside.
Let’s Die Together
The rise of anonymous group suicide in Japan.
The Freegan Establishment
Squatters in Buffalo, NY enjoy a life of “decadent poverty” fixing up palatial mansions.
Fresh Hell
The boom in dystopian fiction aimed at young adults.
Prodigal Son
Is Mike Huckabee the GOP’s best hope in 2012? Mike Huckabee’s not so sure.
Getting Off
Inside the competitive, lucrative, swashbuckling world of DWI attorneys in Houston.
The Death of a Pitcher
The story of a young man killed in Juarez.
Shadow Boxing
Searching for Jimmy Robinson, a boxer who fought Muhammad Ali in 1961, then disappeared.
The Abyss
On life with amnesia and the role that music plays in memory.
The Obama Doctrine
How the president thinks about America’s role in the world.
Hot Mess
How 2-minute noodles became a half-billion dollar debacle for Nestlé in India.
Madness
The horror of being mentally ill in Florida’s prisons.
