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Why Did Jodon Romero Kill Himself On Live Television?

Image by John Gara/Buzzfeed Friday, Sept. 28, 2012Denny's, 75th Avenue and Interstate 10, Phoenix, about 10:45 a.m.No one knows for sure how long Jodon Romero
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PUBLISHED: May 10, 2013
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4970 words)

Black and Brown Blues

Four men sit around a wood table, watching three televisions simultaneously. They are talking among themselves, but only sporadically; they spend more time gazing at the wall of TVs, glancing down at…
PUBLISHED: May 9, 2013
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4460 words)
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The Brazen Bibliophiles of Timbuktu

One afternoon in March, I walked through Timbuktu’s Ahmed Baba Institute of Higher Studies and Islamic Research, stepping around shards of broken glass. Until last year, the modern concrete…
PUBLISHED: April 25, 2013
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2533 words)
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20 years after fire, David Koresh's tragic spell lingers

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PUBLISHED: April 14, 2013
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2657 words)
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Danse Macabre

Sergei Yurevich Filin, a man of early middle age and improbable beauty, sat behind the wheel of his car on a winter night driving toward home. It was 10 degrees Fahrenheit in the center of Moscow, a…
PUBLISHED: March 18, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1004 words)

The Big Short War

Hedge-fund titan Bill Ackman has vowed to bring down Herbalife, the 33-year-old nutritional-supplement company, which he views as a pyramid scheme. With his massive shorting of Herbalife stock, the…
PUBLISHED: April 1, 2013
LENGTH: 29 minutes (7456 words)

On Friendship

Print The intimacies shared with our closest companions keep us anchored, vital, and alive By Edward Hoagland “Let’s just be friends,” lovers proverbially say when breaking up,…
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5640 words)

Confessions of a Corporate Spy

When I strolled into a Talbots near closing time on a Wednesday night, I wasn't expecting Phipps Plaza in Atlanta's ritzy Buckhead neighborhood to be so dead. Perfect for me. Less so for the store…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 2, 2013
LENGTH: 1 minutes (466 words)

George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year

George Saunders In a little sushi restaurant in Syracuse, George Saunders conceded that, sure, one reality was that he and I were a couple guys talking fiction and eating avocado salad and listenin
PUBLISHED: Jan. 3, 2013
LENGTH: 2 minutes (690 words)
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