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Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can’t Protect Us Anymore

“This summer, hackers destroyed my entire digital life in the span of an hour,” says Wired senior writer Mat Honan.Photo: Ethan Hill You have a secret that can ruin your life.…
AUTHOR:Mat Honan
PUBLISHED: Nov. 15, 2012
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1155 words)

Big Sugar's Sweet Little Lies

Illustration: Chris BuzelliOn a brisk spring Tuesday in 1976, a pair of executives from the Sugar Association stepped up to the podium of a Chicago ballroom to accept the Oscar of the public…
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2317 words)

The Island Where People Forget to Die

Stamatis Moraitis tending his vineyard and olive grove on Ikaria. More Photos » In 1943, a Greek war veteran named Stamatis
PUBLISHED: Oct. 24, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (762 words)

Solitary in Iran Nearly Broke Me. Then I Went Inside America's Prisons.

Photograph by James West.IT'S BEEN SEVEN MONTHS since I've been inside a prison cell. Now I'm back, sort of. The experience is eerily like my dreams, where I am a prisoner in another man's cell. Like…
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2271 words)

Neil Young Comes Clean

Driving down the hill above his ranch in the Santa Cruz Mountains, south of San Francisco, Neil Young took a deep whiff of the redwood forest mom
AUTHOR:David Carr
PUBLISHED: Sept. 19, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (847 words)

The Emancipation of the Unemployed

An important anniversary is approaching. On January 1, 1863, Abraham Lincoln signed and issued the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation that sounded the final end of the depraved institution…
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3539 words)

The Mismeasure of All Things

ON A ROAD NOT FAR FROM MORGANTOWN, West Virginia, my guide pulled over to show me the peculiar color of a certain river. It was orange. The rocks and creek bed were a hue somewhat brighter than rust…
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2325 words)

Soldier’s Heart

Filmmaker John Huston considered the 1946 documentary Let There Be Light to be one of his best movies, though for decades its title has been bitterly ironic. Light was banned from public screening by…
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3098 words)

Mothers, Sisters, Daughters, Wives

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PUBLISHED: Aug. 1, 2012
LENGTH: 33 minutes (8420 words)
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