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The Week’s Best Longreads for May 18, 2013

Dirty Medicine Katherine Eban, Fortune The epic inside story of long-term criminal fraud at Ranbaxy, the Indian drug company that makes generic Lipitor for millions of Americans.
PUBLISHED: May 18, 2013

The Week’s Best Longreads for May 3, 2013

The coming-out story that rocked basketball—and the world. The Guantanámo Memoirs Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Slate
PUBLISHED: May 4, 2013

The Week’s Best Longreads for April 27, 2013

The Rise of Big Data Kenneth Neil Cukier and Viktor Mayer-Shoenberger, Foreign Affairs How it’s changing the way we think about the world.
PUBLISHED: April 27, 2013

What BP Doesn’t Want You to Know About the 2010 Gulf Spill

"It’s as safe as Dawn dishwashing liquid.” That’s what Jamie Griffin says the BP man told her about the smelly, rainbow-streaked gunk coating the floor of the “floating hotel” where Griffin was…
PUBLISHED: April 22, 2013
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4338 words)

The Week’s Best Longreads for April 13, 2013

What really happened after Raymond Davis killed two men in the street in Lahore. Two years after Jon Krakauer revealed that Greg Mortenson’s book Three Cups of Tea was riddled with lies and…
PUBLISHED: April 13, 2013

The Week’s Best Longreads for April 6, 2013

Big Veg Mark Bittman, The New York Times Magazine Yes, healthy fast food is possible. But is it edible?
PUBLISHED: April 6, 2013

The Week’s Best Longreads for March 30, 2013

The Master Marc Fisher, The New Yorker A charismatic teacher enthralled his students. Was he abusing them?
PUBLISHED: March 30, 2013

The Week’s Best Longreads for March 23, 2013

Young children—even toddlers—are spending more and more time with digital technology. What will it mean for their development? Bringing Them Back to Life Carl Zimmer, National…
PUBLISHED: March 23, 2013

The Week’s Best Longreads for March 16, 2013

A world-renowned physicist meets a gorgeous model online. They plan their perfect life together. But first, she asks, would he be so kind as to deliver a special package to her? It’s tempting…
PUBLISHED: March 16, 2013
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