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The Week’s Best Longreads for Jan. 5, 2013

The Rise of DIY Abortions  Ada Calhoun, The New Republic Jennie Linn McCormack took pills to end her pregnancy and hid the fetus under her bed. Her case could change the course of abortion law…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 5, 2013

Rising painkiller addiction shows damage from drugmakers’ role in shaping medical opinion

Portsmouth, Ohio — Over much of the past decade, the official word on OxyContin was that it rarely posed problems of addiction for patients. The label on the drug, which was approved by the…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 31, 2012
LENGTH: 2 minutes (510 words)

Dude (Looks Like a Poet)! Backstage with Aerosmith and Paul Muldoon

Mr. Tyler. Two summers ago, I went to a reading that the poet Paul Muldoon was giving in a black box theater on the third floor of a nondescript building in Hell’s Kitchen. He read from a…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 1, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2059 words)
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The Week’s Best Longreads

The Heiress Ken Aluetta, The New Yorker The measured rise of Elisabeth Murdoch. James Bond and the Killer Bag Lady Mark Ames and Alexander
PUBLISHED: Dec. 8, 2012

Berlin in boom: Europe's new Silicon Valley

Jens Begemann, founder and CEO of online gaming company Wooga, in the company's office in Berlin. The German capital's low costs are attracting young 'creatives' from all over the world, he says.…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 6, 2012
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1301 words)

A bishop behind bars

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Sam Mullet, the renegade Amish bishop convicted on federal hate crime charges for his role in a series of beard-cutting attacks last year, has earned an unlikely nickname in…
SOURCE:The Daily
PUBLISHED: Dec. 3, 2012
LENGTH: 24 minutes (6057 words)

Chicken Wire and Telephone Calls: On Robert Caro’s LBJ

Robert Caro has been tracking his great white whale for thirty years now. As with any undertaking of this scale, an aura of legend attaches to the labor. First there is the Ahab-like devotion with…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 20, 2012
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4181 words)

Fear and loathing in Athens: the rise of Golden Dawn and the far right

The flag of Golden Dawn: ‘We want all illegal foreigners out of our country, we want the usurers of the troika and the IMF out for ever.’ Photograph: Reuters You can hear it from blocks away: the…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 26, 2012
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3510 words)

The Week’s Best Longreads

Solitary in Iran Nearly Broke Me. Then I Went Inside America’s Prisons. Shane Bauer, Mother Jones We throw thousands of men in the hole for the books they read, the company they keep, the…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 27, 2012
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