“When twenty first graders were slaughtered and the country responded without a national gun-buyback program, national red-flag laws, universal background checks, a national wait period, a gun registry, an assault-weapons ban . . . we became complicit.”
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Grave Mistakes: The History and Future of Chile’s ‘Disappeared’
“A brutal regime hid hundreds of people’s remains. Can new forensic science help find them—and regain public trust?”
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The Long Fight to Teach an Endangered Ibis Species to Migrate
“Our devastation of nature is so extreme that reversing even a small part of it requires painstaking, quixotic efforts.”
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Tracking the Pacific Drug Highway
“How Latin American cartels are reshaping the narcotics trade across the world’s largest ocean.”
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‘You’ve Blown a Hole in the Family’: Inside the Murdochs’ Succession Drama
“More than 3,000 pages of documents reveal how years of betrayals led to a messy court battle that threatens the future of Rupert’s empire.”
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After Lorne
“The ringmaster of ‘Saturday Night Live’ is 80 years old. What happens to the show, not to mention American comedy, when he retires?”
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The Secret Pattern
“Filtered only through headlines, China had become a political entity more than a physical place where I had grown up, where half of my family still lived.”
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Days and Nights in Gaza
“Watching TV that first day, we awaited the roar of planes and the rumble of explosions. We didn’t have to wait long.”
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Tired of Losing
“Loss was at the root of it. When you’re tired of losing, you hold on to whatever you can.”
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Yesterday, Tomorrow, and Banished Forever
“The Andersons were kicked out of Disneyland’s most exclusive club. They would not go willingly.”