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Which Long Magazine Profiles of Aaron Swartz Should You Bother to Read?

Both the New Yorker and The Atlantic published long stories about the late 26-year-old computer whiz Aaron Swartz today. These join lengthy profiles from New York, Rolling Stone, Slate, The Verge and…
SOURCE:gawker.com
PUBLISHED: March 4, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (817 words)

where the mild things are

Pity; they used to be such nice girls. Leah Hanwell and Keisha Blake grew up together in a grim housing estate in North West London. They acquired university degrees, good jobs, political…
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1614 words)

My dear Kavna: A whale of a love story

Reflections on an unusual friendship with a beluga mama My Dear Kavna, I feel like I've lost a very dear old friend. Yet it's much more than that. Since hearing the news of your death, I have felt…
SOURCE:rabble.ca
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1341 words)

Jamming Tripoli: Inside Moammar Gadhafi’s Secret Surveillance Network

The Internet enabled surveillance on a scale that would have been unimaginable with the old tools of phone taps and informants.Michael Christopher Brown He once was known as al-Jamil—the…
PUBLISHED: May 18, 2012
LENGTH: 25 minutes (6282 words)

Long, maddening fall for former No. 1 Matt Bush

Matt Bush was viciously drunk. He had removed his belt, swung it at a passing car and crashed his vehicle when trying to flee the scene. A fleet of police arrived to arrest him. Hog-tied on the…
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3897 words)

Winging It: The Battle Between Reagan and PATCO

The conservative canonization of Ronald Reagan as the patron saint of the tax cut has always been a vexed rite. For one thing, Reagan actually raised taxes in 1982, when the country was sunk in a…
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4044 words)
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read his legacy of award-winning work

Anthony Shadid, a prize-winning foreign correspondent, died at the age of 43 in Syria, while reporting for the New York Times. A beloved and brilliant writer, Shadid spent his two-decade career…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 16, 2012
LENGTH: 1 minutes (340 words)

David Mitchell: Muggins Here

'Greenland was only going to be a one- or two-year job'. Illustration: Francesco Bongiorni A proper mental Saturday it is, what with New Sue off with her hernia and the Lukes of Hazzard gone AWOL,…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 14, 2010
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2765 words)
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The Dispossessed

LENGTH: 5 minutes (1262 words)
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