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One Nation Under The Gun: Thousands Of Gun Deaths Since Newtown

One Month On the morning of his murder, Feb. 11, Devin Aryal, 9, dressed to the ticking of his race car clock. His collection of stuffed animals, won from those arcade claw games, stared back at him…
PUBLISHED: March 22, 2013
LENGTH: 35 minutes (8881 words)

The Life and Afterlife of Aaron Swartz

(Photo: Sage Ross/DPA/Corbis) Years before he hanged himself in his Crown Heights apartment, the hacker, writer, and activist Aaron Swartz used to debate with his then-girlfriend Quinn Norton whether…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 8, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (806 words)
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Google's Lost Social Network

Posted about 15 minutes ago Last October, while hundreds of protesters were encamped in Zuccotti Park, a handful of people occupied a glass building in downtown Washington D.C. Wearing sheepish grins…
SOURCE:BuzzFeed
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5654 words)

Tim Cook's Freshman Year: The Apple CEO Speaks

Dec. 6, 2012, 7:00 a.m. ETPrior to his death on Oct. 5, 2011, Steve Jobs made sure that the elevation of Tim Cook—his longtime head of operations and trusted deputy—to Apple chief…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 6, 2012
LENGTH: 33 minutes (8453 words)

Living Apart: How the Government Betrayed a Landmark Civil Rights Law

In the early 1900s, African Americans abandoned the South for better lives in the North. Discriminatory landlords and government policies crowded them into ghettos, transforming the demographics of…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 29, 2012
LENGTH: 40 minutes (10124 words)

How Companies Have Assembled Political Profiles for Millions of Internet Users

A slide taken from an online slideshow by a political targeting firm. If you're a registered voter and surf the web, one of the sites you visit has almost certainly placed a tiny piece of data on…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 22, 2012
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1320 words)

LRB · Emily Witt · Diary: Online Dating

I am not usually comfortable in a bar by myself, but I had been in San Francisco for a week and the apartment I sublet had no chairs in it, just a bed and a couch. My friends in town were married or…
AUTHOR:Emily Witt
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3766 words)

The Great New England Vampire Panic

Children playing near a hillside gravel mine found the first graves. One ran home to tell his mother, who was skeptical at first—until the boy produced a skull. Because this was Griswold,…
LENGTH: 40 minutes (10225 words)

Throwaway People: Will Teens Sent to Die in Prison Get a Second Chance?

On August 29, 1976, around 1:40 am, a fire erupted at 1138 Spruce Street in Chester, Pennsylvania. The building, in a row of two-family homes just south of the Delaware Expressway, burned for two…
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3235 words)
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