“The upstart motivator Jesse Itzler wants to reform his profession—while also rising to the top.”
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Harvard, the Human Remains Trade, and Collectors Who Fuel the Market
“At some point in Cedric Lodge’s almost 30-year career in the Harvard Medical School morgue, working mostly alone and far from the eyes of his supervisors, he allegedly decided to get a piece of this trade.”
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The Poop Broker
“Michael Harrop started a booming underground market for human feces. Something smells off.”
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The Dark Heart of Modern Chess
“Chess has never been more popular, but its ugly side has also never been more exposed.”
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The Shadowy Business of International Education
“Foreign students are lied to and exploited on every front. They’re also propping up higher education as we know it.”
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The Greatest Scam Ever Written
“They were believers—in astrology, in psychics, in fortune telling—who longed for transformation, salvation, fortune.”
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Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule
“How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in.”
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I Knew Diddy for Years. What I Now Remember Haunts Me.
“Looking back on my life as a woman in the music industry, I’m unsettled by the inescapable sexism perpetrated by Sean Combs and others.”
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Does Teaching Literature and Writing Have a Future?
“Learning that one’s job might soon be eliminated by the emergence of an overhyped new technology puts one in good company.”
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Who am I to Diss a Brie?
“Plenty of people are looking for stilton, and some have more than a snack on their mind.”
