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.
Posted inMember Pick, Nonfiction, Story
The Bomb in the Bag
How America’s first suicide attack changed one man’s fortune forever.
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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.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
A Fish So Coveted People Have Smuggled, Kidnapped, and Killed For It
The Asian arowana or “dragon fish” is protected by the Endangered Species Act and illegal to own in the U.S. But the tropical fish’s status symbol among wealthy buyers has made it the object of a thriving black market.
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‘Arrested Development’ Creator Mitch Hurwitz on His First Encounter with Michael Cera
“Michael Cera, I had seen him in a pilot and I reached out through the casting director, like, ‘there was this kid in this pilot, can you please try to track him down.’ Two weeks went by, and we’d seen all these — you know, kid actors in Hollywood, a lot of them come up […]
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To Consider Myself a Human Being
How China remembers the Cultural Revolution.
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The Art of Escape
What do we gain from giving inmates access to video games?
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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 […]
