“Growing up in the shadow of genocide.”
Seyward Darby
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He Was One of the World’s Most Wanted Men. So He Bought a West African Country.
“How Jos Leijdekkers turned Sierra Leone into a drug-dealer’s paradise.”
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Ballroom Blitz
“Trump’s obsessive bid for architectural immortality is barreling toward completion.”
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The Anatomy of a Journalism Scandal
“The first time ‘The New York Times’ had lost a defamation case in over half a century.”
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A Mississippi Death Penalty Jury Was Seated. With One Black Juror.
“The jury sentenced Pitchford to death.”
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The Seniors Against Senior Housing
“America’s elders need more places to live, but even in liberal enclaves that recognize the problem, developers are facing the fiercest foes of all: America’s elders.”
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The Children a Scientist Took Home
“Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel Prize for his work on a disease in Papua New Guinea. But his biggest experiment was on the children he took back to the US.”
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How Anti-ICE Protesters Became Prisoners in Trump’s War on Antifa
“‘We are not terrorists.'”
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Whose Babies Are These?
“A Chinese man hired a Florida surrogate, then didn’t pick up his kids, sparking a custody battle that could upend the industry.”