The Friendly Mr. Wu
The weakest link in America’s national security may not be foreign technology but its own people. The story of the single mother who sold out to China.
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Sleep-Away Camp for Postmodern Cowboys
Team America voyages to Jordan’s King Abdullah II Special Operations Training Center to compete against top-seeded China and other squads in challenges based on counter-terrorism scenarios.
"Most Well-Known and Beloved Chinese Role Model"
Lunch with recycling tycoon Chen Guangbiao, the self-described “Most Influential Person of China,” to discuss his interest in buying The New York Times.
The Warlord and the Basketball Star: A Story of Congo's Corrupt Gold Trade
Dikembe Mutombo, humanitarian and former NBA center, and oil executive Kase Lawal arrange a ill-fated deal to buy $30 million in gold in Kenya.
Robert Mercer’s Secret Adventure as a New Mexico Cop
Why would a billionaire go wear a badge and a gun in a tiny desert town? To obtain something that’s impossible to buy.
Queens of the Stoned Age
There are a thousand ways to buy weed in New York City, but the Green Angels devised a novel strategy for standing out: They hired models to be their dealers.
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The Christian with Four Aces
Pat Robertson was 29 years old, possessionless, and living in a Bed-Stuy brownstone when he announced that God had told him to buy a fledgling TV station in Virginia. Here’s what happened next.
My Family Story of Love, the Mob, and Government Surveillance
In the early 1960s, the paranoid Hoffa asked Chuckie to buy thousands of copies of George Orwell’s 1984 and distribute them to union locals around the country. “Some of these poor guys, the only thing they knew was how to drive a truck or work at a warehouse,” Chuckie told me. “They didn’t have the knowledge of the electronic shit. Mr. Hoffa wanted them to read that book and said that this is what’s going to happen to not only us but to everybody—and exactly what he’s predicted has happened.”
What Happens When the Surveillance State Becomes an Affordable Gadget?
Your local police department probably has a $400,00 device that listens in on cellphones. Soon your neighbor will be able to buy the same thing for $1,500.
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In the remote Ukranian countryside, Paterniti picks apples (and faces mortality) with a real-life giant; in Nanjing, China, he confronts a distraught jumper on a suicide bridge; in Dodge City, Kansas, he takes up residence at a roadside hotel and sees, firsthand, the ways in which the racial divide turns neighbor against neighbor. (You can hear Paterniti talking about many of these pieces on Longform Podcast #93.)
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The Xinjiang Procedure
A doctor reveals widespread organ harvesting of prisoners in China.
Ice
An impossible hike in Western China.
The Bro Code
Booze, sex, and the dark art of dealmaking in China.
The Rise of the Tao
On the religious revival underway in China.
Leaving the Witness
A lifelong Jehovah’s Witness moves to China to proselytize.
The Bling Dynasty
An army of Western luxury-lifestyle purveyors flock to China to teach the country’s new billionaires how to act rich.
KFC's Big Game of Chicken
How KFC brought fried chicken to China and Africa as U.S. sales slumped.
Megha Rajagopalan is a senior correspondent for Buzzfeed News. She won a Pulitzer for her coverage of the Xinjiang detention camps.
“It’s not so much that I talk to [the Chinese government] to get information. It’s more that I talk to them to see how they think about things and what’s important to them and what’s their view of the world. … There are so many journalists that have been thrown out of China, so there’s very few people that are able to actually have those conversations. And in the U.S., there are these seismic decisions being made about China policy, and if you don’t talk to the people that run the country, it’s a problem.”
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Dirty Coal, Clean Future
America, China, and the case for coal as a vital weapon in the war against climate change.
Beta Blockers Were a Miracle Cure for My Stage Fright
Online startups can send you pills to cure anxiety. But is it safe to buy them?
“Your Future Is Very Dark”
On former CIA agent John T. Downey, who spent more than 20 years in China as the longest held American captive of war.
China's 'Tainted' Cotton
China is forcing hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other minorities into hard, manual labour in the vast cotton fields of its western region of Xinjiang.
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The Killing Season
In 1975, the grisly double murder of a 24-year-old woman and her young daughter turned a small Colorado town on its head. For the two inexperienced detectives assigned to the case, it was a chance to prove their mettle. But what happens when everyone is suspect and nobody is guilty?
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The Chinese Government Is Getting Rich Selling Cigarettes
How the China National Tobacco Corp., which manufactures 2.5 trillion cigarettes per year, came to make more money than Apple.
Tyrus Wong, ‘Bambi’ Artist Thwarted by Racial Bias, Dies at 106
He left China at 10 and would never see his mother again. He lived in extreme poverty once he arrived in America. He found his calling in art, became the creative force behind one of Disney’s iconic films, but didn’t get recognition for his brilliance until late in his life, when in addition to painting and illustrating he began to make fantastical kites.
