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Solitary in Iran Nearly Broke Me. Then I Went Inside America's Prisons.

Photograph by James West.IT'S BEEN SEVEN MONTHS since I've been inside a prison cell. Now I'm back, sort of. The experience is eerily like my dreams, where I am a prisoner in another man's cell. Like…
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2271 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)

Eddie Is Gone

I. OCCUPY FROMMER’S The Hawaiian history that plays through headsets on the buses that shuttle tourists between the shops, hotels, restaurants, and beaches on Oahu is predictably bland, defanged, and…
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3962 words)

Everything You've Heard About Failing Schools Is Wrong

Illustration by Jon Krause"SPEEK EENGLISH, TACO," THE GIRL with the giant backpack yelled when Maria asked where to find a bathroom. The backpack giggled as it bounced down the hall. It had been…
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2048 words)

"I Always Knew Somebody Would Get Killed Inside That Place"

A safety sign outside the US Steel complex in Clairton, Pennsylvania, where Nick Revetta was killed in September 2009 iWatch/Center for Public IntegrityEarly on the morning of September 3, 2009,…
AUTHOR:Jim Morris
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1321 words)

The Marines' Breast Cancer Epidemic

Kris Thomas (left) and Jim Fontella in the Art beCAUSE breast cancer calendar. (David Fox) It all started with Mike Partain, a.k.a. Number One. A barrel-chested father of four with a goatee and a…
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1689 words)
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