The iconic comic strip may seem simple, but its central metaphor has proven impossible to replicate.
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Unknown Costs
Forty-three million Americans need substance addiction treatment, but only a tiny fraction receive it. We know why.
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Into the Devil’s Jaw
How a a wrong turn led to the largest peacetime disaster in American naval history.
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Who’s Afraid of Lorne Michaels?
Very rarely can we see an entire system reflected in one person. The creator and executive producer of “Saturday Night Live” is such a person.
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Taken and Told
A filmmaker was producing a documentary series on the Iran hostage crisis. Then her father went missing overseas.
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Ron’s Place
A man’s death revealed his secret masterpiece—his rented home, illegally transformed into a classical villa. What happened next questions how we define art.
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Inside the World of Nigerian “Yahoo Boys”
Could Carlos Barragán find the person who conned his mother?
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I Tried to Forget My Whole Life. I’m Glad I Failed.
The hindsight of an adulthood autism diagnosis.
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Momo’s Deadline
Linda Button on her toughest writing assignment yet: her business partner’s epitaph.