Visiting Mar-a-Lago with Ralph Wolfe Cowan, who has painted celebrities like Elvis Presley, Elizabeth Taylor, and Donald Trump.
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How the Aztecs Predicted the Apocalypse
But then it didn’t happen. Or did it?
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‘Because pretending was sometimes the only way to get through the day.’
A teacher helping fidgety students pass a rainy recess with a familiar game — don’t touch the floor, it’s lava! — finds that the ability to pretend takes on an unexpected gravity.
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Rules of Ascent
For mountaineers, it’s not enough to get to the top – it must be done a certain way. But why is the harder way better?
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Palm Beach Van Dyck
A “willingness to flout the laws of space and time” help painter Ralph Cowan form relationships with the kind of people who will pay for a portrait of themselves with a lion, at the mast of a ship, or gliding through a Venetian dreamscape.
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The Floor is Lava
“Because children needed to play, to let their imaginations explode. Because pretending was sometimes the only way to get through the day.”
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The Refugees Abused in the Name of Chicken and Profit
ProPublica blows the whistle on Case Farms, which targets refugees for their labor force.
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The Unlikely Friendship of Long Ma and Bac Duong
When taxi driver Long Ma agreed to drive Bac Duong home, he had no idea he was about to be taken hostage by three escaped inmates.
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Sold For Parts
One of the most dangerous companies in the U.S. took advantage of immigrant workers. Then, when they got hurt or fought back, it used America’s laws against them.
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The Accidental Get Away Driver
How one man drove right into the center of a daring and dangerous crime, and came out the other side with a renewed faith in life and a new son.