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The Prism

An extraordinary fuss about eavesdropping started in the spring of 1844, when Giuseppe Mazzini, an Italian exile in London, became convinced that the British government was opening his mail. Mazzini,…
PUBLISHED: June 24, 2013
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3880 words)
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FRONTLINE & Longreads: Inside Obama’s Presidency – Inside Obama’s Presidency - FRONTLINE

This Tuesday, a week before Barack Obama’s second inauguration, FRONTLINE will air a probing look at the first four years of his presidency. With inside accounts from his battles with his…
AUTHOR:Azmat Khan
PUBLISHED: Jan. 14, 2013
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4197 words)

The Top 10 Longreads of 2012

9. The Semplica-Girl Diaries George Saunders | The New Yorker | October 8, 2012 | 35 minutes (8,979 words) A father uses his lottery winnings for an extravagant birthday party for his teenage…
LENGTH: 1 minutes (283 words)

The Real Price of Amazon's Free Shipping

MikeBlogs/FlickrA couple of weeks ago, my best friend sent me an email. She just got this new expensive makeup she'd ordered on the internet. It had arrived! But then she remembered that story I…
LENGTH: 1 minutes (292 words)
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How to Rig an Election

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The Voter-Fraud Myth

Teresa Sharp is fifty-three years old and has lived in a modest single-family house on Millsdale Street, in a suburb of Cincinnati, for nearly thirty-three years. A lifelong Democrat, she has voted…
AUTHOR:Jane Mayer
PUBLISHED: Oct. 29, 2012
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5138 words)
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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)

Transaction Man

Mitt Romney’s time at business school coincided with the waning of big corporations and the beginning of the rise of finance. I. CHURCHThis summ
PUBLISHED: Oct. 1, 2012
LENGTH: 42 minutes (10702 words)
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Joe Biden Isn’t Finished

Biden descends from Air Force Two in Virginia.  (Photo: Christopher Anderson/Magnum Photos/New York Magazine) Jesus Christ!” Joe Biden barks, pitching forward in the captain’s…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 2, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (902 words)
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