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Your Weekend Longreads List on Bullying

Karen Roach/Shutterstock With bullying in the news this week after the Washington Post's investigation into Mitt Romney's pr
LENGTH: 2 minutes (608 words)

The Boy Who Played With Fusion

Taylor Wilson always dreamed of creating a star. Now he’s become one By Tom Clynes Posted 02.14.2012 at 12:52 pm Standout Taylor Wilson moved to suburban Reno with his parents, Kenneth and…
AUTHOR:Tom Clynes
LENGTH: 21 minutes (5311 words)

Burma's military junta accused of torturing and killing ethnic rebels

The villagers scattered as machine guns raked the darkness, fleeing from the Burmese troops into the thick of the jungle. When day came they crept from their hiding places to find each other.Nu La…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 18, 2011
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1880 words)

24 Hours at Fukushima

Photos: [Left] Christoph Bangert/ LaIF/Redux; [Right] TEPCO RADIATION AND RUIN: Evacuees were checked for radiation…
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4206 words)

Financial crisis and stimulus: Could this time be different?

Christina Romer had been asked to scare her new boss. It was six weeks after the 2008 election, and the incoming administration had gathered in Chicago. David Axelrod, Barack Obamas top political…
AUTHOR:Ezra Klein
PUBLISHED: Oct. 8, 2011
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6614 words)

Will Robots Steal Your Job?

Join Farhad Manjoo in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Sept. 29, for a Future Tense event on robots and the workforce. Manjoo will be joined by Tyler Cowen, author of The Great Stagnation and blogger…
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2403 words)

Our Man in Kandahar

Shyly, at times smiling with weak adolescent bravado, the two young men recounted to me how they were beaten and tortured. It was July, and we were sitting at a table in the cavernous…
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2364 words)

In search of Nirvana

Nirvana live at the Paramount in Seattle in 1991 Link to this video Twenty years ago on a hot, smelly mess of an August day, the kind New York City does…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 18, 2011
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2967 words)

Tensions rise as Latinos feel under siege in America's deep south

The mobile home that Nancy Lugo and her two children live in might not seem like much to many people.It sits off a dirt road, by a slow-moving creek, on the outskirts of the tiny Georgia town…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 21, 2011
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2657 words)
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