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Operation Delirium

At an Army research facility, a soldier given a powerful mind-altering drug said, “I feel like my life is not worth a nickel here.” Colonel James S. Ketchum dreamed of war without…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 17, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (960 words)

The Greatest Fake-Art Scam in History?

One of his forgeries hung in a show at the Met. Steve Martin bought another of his fake paintings. Still others have sold at auction for multi-million-dollar prices. So how did a self-described…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 10, 2012
LENGTH: 33 minutes (8395 words)

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Venus and Serena Against the World

There’s video that exists of Venus and Serena Williams playing tennis when they were kids — 8 and 7, respectively — in the late ’80s, on unshaded but otherwise decent-looking public courts in…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 23, 2012
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1484 words)

How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking | Gadget Lab

Meet Mat Honan. He just had his digital life dissolved by hackers. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired. Illustration: Ross Patton/Wired In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed. First…
AUTHOR:Mat Honan
PUBLISHED: Aug. 6, 2012
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3578 words)

Supreme Deciders

Today is the second day of oral arguments before the Supreme Court about the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, President Obama’s health-care-reform law. Over at Daily Comment,…
PUBLISHED: March 27, 2012
LENGTH: 1 minutes (250 words)

Net Impact

Late on a snowy evening, Alexey Navalny, a lawyer and blogger known for his crusade against the corruption that pervades Russian business and government, sat in a radio studio in Moscow. Tall and…
PUBLISHED: April 4, 2011
LENGTH: 3 minutes (926 words)

Weekend Reading: Rising and Falling; Falling and Rising

Weekend Reading: a weekly column of my favorite long magazine stories from the past week. They’re also often collected on twitter at #longreads and here. (Read last week’s here, and the…
PUBLISHED: May 25, 2012
LENGTH: 1 minutes (429 words)

The New Yorker's Nicholas Thompson

The New Yorker’s Nicholas Thompson: My Top 5 Longreads of 2011 Nicholas Thompson is a senior editor at The New Yorker and a frequent Longreader. I’m a sucker for stories about…
AUTHOR:longreads
LENGTH: 1 minutes (465 words)
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