H-E-B Forever
“Why Texas’s favorite store is the cultiest cult grocer in America.”
He Helped Build an Artists’ Utopia. Now He Faces Trial for 36 Deaths There.
“Max Harris did chores and collected rent at the artists’ warehouse where he lived. Now he faces trial for the deaths at a concert there — including some of his close friends.”
How the IRS Was Gutted
Tax evaders, rejoice: the Internal Revenue Service may not have enough resources to come after the vast majority of those offshore bank accounts. It also doesn’t have enough resources to investigate white collar crime, curb suspicious corporate activity, shore up the nation’s rising budget deficit, or answer tens of millions of law-abiding taxpayers’ questions. And now, just when morale is at its lowest, the IRS stands to lose a third of its most valuable and experienced workers next year as the organization’s most senior cohort becomes eligible for retirement.
American Ghostwriter
An adventure as the Man Behind the Curtain for memoirs of the uber-rich.
Is the Women’s March Melting Down?
An investigation into the leadership, organizational and financial status, and affiliations of the increasingly fractured Women’s March. Among many other explosive issues, the article interrogates the alleged anti-semitism of some of the March’s leaders, who support the outwardly anti-semitic, misogynistic, and anti-LBGTQ Nation of Islam founder Louis Farrakhan.
How WhatsApp Fuels Fake News and Violence in India
“IndiaSpend, a data journalism outlet, pegs the figure at 33 killed in 69 incidents of mob violence between January 2017 and July 2018.”
Queens of Infamy: Zenobia
In third-century Syria, a widowed monarch dared to be wildly ambitious — and almost brought the Roman Empire to its knees.
The Truth About Green Book
Peter Farrelly’s Green Book, a “true story” about an Italian-American bouncer who escorts a black pianist on a tour of the Jim Crow South in 1962, is emerging as an awards season frontrunner. But the family of the pianist, Dr. Shirley, has dismissed the film, not just for its factual inaccuracies, but for essentially revising and rewriting a black man’s identity.
Ghosts of Highway 20
In a five-part series, The Oregonian pieces together the complicated untold story of the women who were raped and went missing on a single Oregon highway. One man appears to be responsible for it all.
‘Do I Really Want to Hurt My Baby?’
“Intrusive thoughts are virtually universal among both new mothers and new fathers. ‘If they say they don’t have them, he told me, ‘they’re lying.'”
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