The people who supply drugs that lead to overdoses are increasingly being charged with manslaughter using old drug-induced homicide laws. Why?
Aaron Gilbreath
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How Offshore Banking Destroyed Everything
This is the story of how a handfull of mega-rich ended up hoarding most of the world’s wealth.
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The Real Goldfinger: The London Banker Who Broke the World
Rowland Baring, governor of the Bank of England between 1961 and 1966, found the Bretton Woods system — which controlled the exchange of currency and used gold-backed US dollars as an “impartial” international currency — both unethical and damaging to the City of London. Many agreed. When banker Ian Fraser changed the way the global economy […]
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What Future is There for America’s Desert Cities?
The daughter of Indian immigrants looks at race, class and climate change in the giant heat sink known as Phoenix, Arizona, a city where money equips residents with the shade trees and air conditioning necessary to survive the heat.
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The Prisoners Left Behind
Recreational cannabis is now legal in eight states and the District of Columbia, yet many people convicted of nonviolent cannabis trafficking crimes now wallow in prison with life sentences without parole. President Obama’s clemency program offered to help these low-level drug offenders receive reduced prison sentences, but the program was flawed. Now that Trump’s in […]
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Arranging Your Body in Space: Talking Identity, Memoir, and Twins with Leah Dieterich
“One-eighth of all natural pregnancies begin as twins,” Leah Dieterich writes in her memoir, “but early in pregnancy, one twin becomes less viable and is compressed against the wall of the uterus or absorbed by the other twin.” This concept of a vanishing twin, a term coined in the year of Dieterich’s birth, frames the […]
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The Deep, Confounding Joys of Music
Even the greatest philosophical minds can’t figure out why music gives us such pleasure, only that music does.
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Musical Pleasures
Human beings have savored listening to music for centuries, but the mechanisms behind that pleasurable experience still elude comprehension.
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A Day in the Life of New York City’s Subway Helpers
When New York’s complicated public transportation system gets delayed or overwhelming, commuters get frustrated and they complain. Now the Metropolitan Transit Authority sends special Customer Service Ambassadors into busy stations to help the lost, offer commuters alternate routes, fix MetroCards and offer a simple “I’m sorry.”
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Judging by the Cover: How the Magazine Industry’s Identity Crisis Is Playing Out on Its Front Page
Digitization has profoundly altered the way magazines sell and get produced, yet traditional print covers still have a strong cultural and economic impact. Cover designs now have to strike a delicate balance between satisfying loyal subscribers and attracting new digital readers who engage on social media.