The writer on his experience with night terrors, which he associates with his love of horror films and the work of Tom Savini, a special-effects artist known for working with director George Romero on zombie films: Savini joined the Army rather than wait to get drafted because enlisted men got to pick their jobs. He […]
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‘We weren’t out to change government, we were out to destroy it’
How an Army private plotted murder, and attempted to form an anti-government militia made up of U.S. soldiers: After extra duty one night, Aguigui remembers, Salmon told him that “the leader of the resistance in the game was identical to how he envisioned me.” When Aguigui responded, “We could do this,” Salmon told him, “I’ll […]
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The Rise and Fall of John DeLorean
“It was the end of the story of John DeLorean as part of the American Dream—how a humble kid from Detroit could rise to the very top.”
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The Rise and Fall of John DeLorean
“It was the end of the story of John DeLorean as part of the American Dream—how a humble kid from Detroit could rise to the very top.”
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Friendship Is Complicated
Art, commerce, and the battle for the soul of My Little Pony.
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Friendship Is Complicated
Art, commerce, and the battle for the soul of My Little Pony.
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How to Spell the Rebel Yell
What did the Civil War sound like?
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The Story Behind the SAT Overhaul
How the College Board revolutionized the most controversial exam in America: When the Scholastic Aptitude Test was created in 1926, it was promoted as a tool to create a classless, Jeffersonian-style meritocracy. The exam, which purported to measure innate intelligence, was originally adapted from the World War I Army I.Q. test and served as a […]
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Interview with a Torturer
Documentary filmmaker and Khmer Rouge survivor Rithy Panh spent hundreds of hours interviewing Duch, the commandant of the Cambodia “killing fields” and one of the most notorious torturers of the 20th century. This is his haunting memoir of those interviews.
