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When A 10-Year-Old Kills His Nazi Father, Who's To Blame?

Image by Johan Persson/Kontinent/Redux Two flags dangle from a banister into the middle of a living room in a modest two-story suburban home in Riverside — one of the far-flung exurbs of Southern…
AUTHOR:NatashaVC
SOURCE:BuzzFeed
LENGTH: 25 minutes (6352 words)

The Man Who Made Star Wars

Modesto is a small California town that gains its livelihood from its shops and its farms. Beyond its few streets lies the walnut ranch where George Lucas was raised. The town has one cinema on its…
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5033 words)

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You may be one of those people who believe there is too much money in politics. (Polling suggests there are many such people—­a vast majority of Americans, in fact.) You may believe that…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2789 words)

How Paul Ryan Convinced Washington of His Genius

THE TALL, GOOD-LOOKING young man from Wisconsin sure was likable and energetic, but in the early 1990s, no one in Washington expected Paul Ryan to become the intellectual tribune of his party. It…
LENGTH: 2 minutes (549 words)
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Will and Erwynn met at church and fell in love. But they had a big problem—“don’t ask, don’t tell.” The unlikely story of the first gay military union.

Tech. Sgt. Erwynn Umali (right) and Will Behrens (left) at the McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst chapel, where their civil union was held on June 23, 2012.Photo by Jeff Sheng It’s almost Christmas, and I’m…
PUBLISHED: July 17, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (904 words)

Chernobyl Now

Are nuclear disasters the new normal? By Steve Featherstone Posted 07.17.2012 at 10:10 am On April 26, 1986, two powerful explosions tore through Unit 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, flipping…
LENGTH: 3 minutes (908 words)

The truth about the Fast and Furious scandal

By Katherine Eban Dave Voth, Fast and Furious supervisor for the ATF FORTUNE -- In the annals of impossible assignments, Dave Voth's ranked high. In 2009 the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,…
PUBLISHED: June 27, 2012
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6673 words)

Finding Oscar: Massacre, Memory and Justice in Guatemala

Chapter 1: 'You Don't Know Me' The call from Guatemala put Oscar on edge. Prosecutors came looking for you, relatives in his rural hometown told him. Big shots from Guatemala City. They want to talk…
PUBLISHED: May 25, 2012
LENGTH: 41 minutes (10404 words)

The Marines' Breast Cancer Epidemic

Kris Thomas (left) and Jim Fontella in the Art beCAUSE breast cancer calendar. (David Fox) It all started with Mike Partain, a.k.a. Number One. A barrel-chested father of four with a goatee and a…
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1689 words)
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