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Death Takes a Policy: How a Lawyer Exploited the Fine Print and Found Himself Facing Federal Charges

Rhode Island financial planner and lawyer Joseph Caramadre is the subject of a 66-count federal indictment relating to investments in variable annuities and corporate bonds. (Matthew Healey for…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 24, 2012
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5072 words)

How Anonymous Picks Targets, Launches Attacks, and Takes Powerful Organizations Down

Image Design: Giles Revell No one but Hector Xavier Monsegur can know why or when he became Sabu, joining the strange and chaotic Internet collective known as Anonymous. But we know the moment he…
PUBLISHED: July 3, 2012
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1090 words)

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The Myth of the Disconnected Life

The new year is now well underway and many people have probably already broken the resolutions they made to disconnect from their digital devices more often and reconnect with the people and places…
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1710 words)

'Your son is being tortured. He will die if you don't pay'

The walls of Um Hussein's living room in Baghdad are hung with the portraits of her missing sons. There are four of them, and each picture frame is decorated with plastic roses and green ribbons as…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 16, 2012
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2920 words)

A Tour Inside Syria's Insurgency

Smuggled by anti-regime fighters across the Lebanon border and into the heart of the uprising, I found fearless protesters, calls for intervention, and the growing threat of civil war Still image…
AUTHOR:Paul Wood
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1381 words)

My top 12 longreads of 2011

The wonderful site Longreads is collating people’s picks of the best long features of the year. Some say that the internet is triggering a renaissance for long-form writing and I very much…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 24, 2011
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1121 words)
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