At the height of the housing crisis, one woman’s bureaucratic odyssey to discover who really owns her home leads her to startling revelations about the housing market.
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The Spectacular Rise and Surprising Exit of a Hollywood Executive
Richard Nanula started his career big: At 31, he became CFO of Disney, among the youngest ever at a Fortune 500 company. He later ran Starwood Hotels & Resorts, and Miramax. Then came the allegations that he filmed sex scenes with porn actresses.
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The Bomb in the Bag
How America’s first suicide attack changed one man’s fortune forever.
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When the Messiah Came to America, She Was a Woman
On the rise and fall of American utopia.
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Your Phone Was Made By Slaves: A Primer on the Secret Economy
On the new triangle trade, and the surprising connection between modern slavery and ecological disaster.
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How Christy Plott Redd Became the ‘Queen of Gator’
The title is self-appointed. Several years ago, Redd heard about an alligator buyer from Italy working in Florida and calling himself the King. This was annoying. For one thing, there are no alligators in Italy. Live ones, anyway. More importantly, royalty is demonstrated by blood line, and nobody in the world can lay claim to […]
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The First Slavery Museum
For reasons that no one can quite explain, a wealthy white New Orleans man has spent the last fifteen years and more than $8 million of his personal fortune building the first museum in America dedicated to telling the story of slavery.
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The Life and Murder of Stella Walsh, Intersex Olympic Champion
Eighty years ago, in Berlin, Stella Walsh won her second Olympic medal. Decades later, Walsh’s murder and subsequent autopsy threw the legacy of track’s first female superstar into turmoil.
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Four Stories About Merle Haggard
Four Stories About Merle Haggard.
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The Pioneering Women Assigned to Program One of the Earliest Computers
After six weeks of training, the women returned to Penn, where they were given poster-size diagrams and charts describing ENIAC. “Somebody gave us a whole stack of blueprints, and these were the wiring diagrams for all the panels, and they said, ‘Here, figure out how the machine works and then figure out how to program […]
