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The Disappeared

The author, photographed in London in 1994, five years after Ayatollah Khomeini’s death sentence forced him into hiding. Photograph by Richard Avedon.
PUBLISHED: Sept. 17, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (985 words)

Islamism Now

Freedom and Justice Party campaign rally, Cairo, May 20, 2012. Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images Egypt’s revolution is transforming the country’s Islamist landscape. The first wave of…
LENGTH: 34 minutes (8528 words)

A Snitch’s Dilemma

Kathryn Johnston was doing pretty well until the night the police showed up. Ever since her sister died, Johnston, 92, had lived alone in a rough part of Atlanta called the Bluff. A niece checked in…
PUBLISHED: June 29, 2012
LENGTH: 29 minutes (7485 words)

The decline and fall of public housing

1230 N. Burling, © Paul D’Amato Forty years ago, when U.S. cities began abandoning high-rise public housing, blasting crews would fill a tower with explosives and in a few monumental…
AUTHOR:Ben Austen
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6740 words)
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