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Fracking's Latest Scandal? Earthquake Swarms

At exactly 10:53 p.m. on Saturday, November 5, 2011, Joe and Mary Reneau were in the bedroom of their whitewashed and brick-trimmed home, a two-story rambler Mary's dad custom-built 43 years ago.…
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2059 words)

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Thanksgiving Longreads: What Lab Creation Are You Eating?

1947 Spam ad featuring pineapple and BBQ sauce. Yum? James Vaughan /Flickr For the past hundred years or so, the food industry has used the laws of chemistry to beat nature into submission. Apples…
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1149 words)

For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question

Photo: Thierry Falise Editor's Note: On Sunday, the party of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi announced that she had won a seat in the nation's parliament. If upheld, the result would…
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2154 words)

Is Obama About to Take Over the Internet?

Win McNamee/Getty Images North AmericaImagine if someone like Lisbeth Salander, the computer hacker in the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, decided to poison New York's water supply or tried to turn off…
LENGTH: 3 minutes (801 words)

Is Retraining the Unemployed Actually a Good Idea?

The GM Janesville assembly plant, which closed in 2008, stands vacant with security guarding it in Janesville, Wisconsin. Andre J. Jackson/Detroit Free Press/ZumaThis story first appeared on the…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2904 words)

Did ExxonMobil Pay Torturers?

This mass grave was uncovered in central Aceh, the province where a decade-old case alleges Indonesian soldiers hired by ExxonMobil tortured, killed, and assaulted villagers during a bloody civil…
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1710 words)

Follow the Dark Money

Illustrations by Steve Brodner"There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can't remember what the second one is."—Mark Hanna, 19th-century mining tycoon and…
AUTHOR:Andy Kroll
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2375 words)
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