“A wiseguy’s son steps out of his father’s shadow—and into the boxing ring. But the legacy of organized crime isn’t so easy to leave behind.”
Brendan Fitzgerald
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Thornton Wilder’s Last Play Vanished Into Thin Air. Or Did It?
“Decades after ‘The Emporium’ failed to open on Broadway in 1954, one man went on a quest to find it.”
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Losing Paradise
“As rising seas swallow Louisiana’s marshes, oil companies are pretending nothing has changed — and that now floatable, fishable waters remain their private property.”
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Online Trolls Harassed Her Six-Year-Old. That Was Only the Beginning.
“How a group of sports fans at the University of Iowa sparked a clash involving a basketball star, a T-shirt company, and a reporter from halfway across the country.”
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I Turned Off My Phone for a Month and Used a Landline
“No texts, no Instagram, no subway Slack.”
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Building an AI Data Center in Pine Island, Minnesota
“I learned about the data center as soon as the scrappy sign was erected. I was thrilled to see something new; my drive hasn’t changed much in three years. I was less thrilled for Pine Island, which has, like many rural Midwestern towns, become an unlikely microcosm of the AI debate.”