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The Thin Red Line

Just after midnight on April 25th, a Syrian medical technician who calls himself Majid Daraya was sitting at home, in the city of Daraya, five miles from the outskirts of Damascus, when he heard an…
PUBLISHED: May 13, 2013
LENGTH: 33 minutes (8294 words)
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Schizophrenic. Killer. My Cousin.

Mark with Houston at Houston's high school graduation in 2009 Courtesy of the familyTHE THING THAT STRUCK ME when I first met my cousin Houston was his size. He wasn't much taller than me, if at all,…
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1601 words)

Austerity audit

Few companies have better insight into the impact of austerity on consumers than Asda, the supermarket chain whose heartland is the north of England. Asda is seeing consumer behaviour patterns change…
SOURCE:ig.ft.com
LENGTH: 3 minutes (776 words)

Slideshow: Oscar’s Story

Oscar Alfredo Ramírez Castañeda, right with his 7-year-old daughter Nicole, created a solid life in the suburbs of Boston after leaving Guatemala in 1998. (Matthew Healey for ProPublica)…
PUBLISHED: May 25, 2012
LENGTH: 2 minutes (664 words)

Sex, Oil, and Videotape

"Enbridge Covered Up Oil" reads the hat that John Bolenbaugh wears while filming submerged tar sands crude along the banks of the Kalamazoo River in Battle Creek, Michigan. Photos: Mary Anne…
LENGTH: 24 minutes (6166 words)

The Caging of America

Six million people are under correctional supervision in the U.S.—more than were in Stalin’s gulags. Photograph by Steve Liss.
PUBLISHED: Jan. 30, 2012
LENGTH: 21 minutes (5481 words)

Big Organic, Small Organic

It used to be that buyers of organic food could make some safe assumptions: the food was made close to where it was bought, by someone the buyer could visit or call up; the farmer or food…
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2648 words)

My Summer at an Indian Call Center

I stand flush against the window of a Toyota showroom, trying to stay in a shrinking sliver of shade. We're on the cusp of midday, which, in Delhi in June, lasts most of the day and drives everyone…
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1193 words)

The Man Behind Bin Laden

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PUBLISHED: Sept. 16, 2002
LENGTH: 87 minutes (21906 words)
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