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Red White

Special relationship: Keynes and White at an IMF meeting, Savannah, Georgia, 1946. (Getty) In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis and the ensuing global economic downturn, it has become commonplace…
AUTHOR:Benn Steil
LENGTH: 1 minutes (390 words)
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For Poor, Leap to College Often Ends in a Hard Fall

Bianca Gonzalez earned an associate degree at a community college. GALVESTON, Tex. — Angelica Gonzales marched through high school in Goth armor — black boots, chains and cargo pants — but undermined…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 22, 2012
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5500 words)
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For Lesser Crimes, Rethinking Life Behind Bars

LEFT BEHIND Wendy Evil raised her sister's three children when her sister, Stephanie George, went to prison. TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Stephanie George and Judge Roger Vinson had quite different opinions…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 11, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (914 words)

Housing Agency’s Flaws Revealed by Storm

Steven Dent, who lives in Red Hook Houses in Brooklyn, suffered carbon monoxide poisoning after he used the oven to heat his apartment. Three weeks after
PUBLISHED: Dec. 9, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (882 words)

Michigan Town Woos Hollywood, but Ends Up With a Bit Part

Even the great and powerful Oz could not save the film studio that was supposed to save this town. The studio, a state-of-the-art facility fit for Hollywood blockbusters, had risen from the ruins of…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 3, 2012
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2838 words)

Lines Blur as Texas Gives Industries a Bonanza

The Samsung fabrication plant, seen in the background, while a neighborhood boy swings on the playground of the Pioneer Crossing Elementary School. Samsung has been awarded more than $231 million in…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 2, 2012
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4884 words)

The lunacy of fandom: They killed our fathers, and now the sons of bitches are coming to get us

I have next to my desk a framed color photograph from an old issue of Pro Football Weekly. At the time the photograph was taken, Pro Football Weekly did not have what one would call high production…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 12, 2012
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3253 words)

Did ExxonMobil Pay Torturers?

This mass grave was uncovered in central Aceh, the province where a decade-old case alleges Indonesian soldiers hired by ExxonMobil tortured, killed, and assaulted villagers during a bloody civil…
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1710 words)

The Thin Blue Lie

Sawhorse Toy by Imp Kerr I will always remember the first time a cop lied to me. Or rather, the first time that I knew beyond a doubt that a cop was lying to me, sitting right there in the interview…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2828 words)
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