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Obama, Explained

In the late 1990s, when his fellow University of Chicago professor Barack Obama had just run for the Illinois State Senate and long before a newly inaugurated President Obama named him to his…
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4126 words)

I Was Kim Jong Il's Cook

The author, who writes under a pseudonym, is a Japanese sushi chef. In 1982, at the invitation of a Japanese-North Korean trading company, he started working in a sushi restaurant in Pyongyang. In…
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1693 words)
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