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The Scammer Next Door
“In India, an era of glaring inequality is also a golden age of fraud.”
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The Man Who Held His Breath for 24 Minutes
“After his daughter’s diagnosis, Budimir Šobat gave up drinking and devoted himself to her care. Years later, he found a new obsession: holding his breath longer than anyone in history.”
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The H-2A Visa Trap
“She was sold the American dream with a farmworker visa. Shewound up in a nightmare.”
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The Mystery of the Nameless Girl Found Dead in a Spanish Border Town
“On a summer morning in 1990, the body of a young woman appeared in a small town close to the frontier. For those who saw her, finding her identity became an obsession that would last 30 years.”
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Portrait of ChatGPT as a Young Artist: Vauhini Vara on Voice, Tech, and Using AI in Writing
“Sarah Viren talks to the author of ‘Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age.’”
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Lessons for the End of the World
“On Octavia Butler, the L.A. fires, and the uses and misuses of the things that cannot be recovered.”
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The Final Flight of Captain Forrester
“Fifty years after the last American helicopter departed Saigon, 1,572 Americans are still lost in Vietnam. This is the story of a missing Marine from Odessa, Texas.”
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How to Make Art Out of Confederate Monuments
“A new show featuring decommissioned statues forces a reckoning with American history at a moment when Donald Trump is trying to stop just that.”
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How JPMorgan Enabled the Crimes of Jeffrey Epstein
“A Times investigation found that America’s leading bank spent years supporting—and profiting from—the notorious sex offender, ignoring red flags, suspicious activity and concerned executives.”
