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How Americans Lost the Right to Counsel, 50 Years After 'Gideon'

You have a right to an attorney in a criminal case, even if you cannot afford one. The Supreme Court said so half a century ago. But today that precious right is systematically ignored or undermined.…
PUBLISHED: March 13, 2013
LENGTH: 25 minutes (6352 words)

Google and the future of search: Amit Singhal and the Knowledge Graph

Making connections: inside one of Google’s data centres, the Dalles, Oregon. Photograph: Google/Rex Features Thinking about Google over the last week, I have fallen into the typically procrastinatory…
AUTHOR:Tim Adams
PUBLISHED: Jan. 19, 2013
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4192 words)

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)

Slavery's Global Comeback

Buying and selling people into forced labor is bigger than ever. What "human trafficking" really means.Slaves pan for gold in Accra, Ghana. Many have children with them as they wade in water poisoned…
AUTHOR:J.J. Gould
PUBLISHED: Dec. 19, 2012
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4091 words)

A life in exile: how it feels to be a refugee

Lanier Lovely, 18 Displaced by the earthquake in Haiti in 2010, pictured with her son Lovinsky, in Port-au-Prince 'I don’t feel safe in the camp.' Photograph: Andrew McConnell/IRC/Panos I was in the…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 14, 2012
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2929 words)

A Eulogy for #Occupy

A table at Zuccotti Park where free cigarettes were given out, taken three days before the OWS eviction. The inscription reads “Falling is still flying Have Hope Mon Ami.” Photo: Quinn…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 12, 2012
LENGTH: 29 minutes (7369 words)

A Year Inside a Medical Residency: Part 1

As new doctors spend their first days in the hospital, they learn what their lives are really going to be.[flickr/JoseGoulao]I am the director of a medical residency training program. Over the next…
PUBLISHED: July 28, 2012
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1426 words)
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