“How did the Alexander brothers become real-estate elites while allegedly raping or assaulting more than a dozen women?”
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Open Season on Illegal Hunting
All our recent editors’ picks and an excerpt from “Big Game,” a deeply reported piece about taking down a group of notorious poachers.
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We Bought Everything Needed to Make $3 Million Worth of Fentanyl. All It Took Was $3,600 and a Web Browser.
“At the tap of a buyer’s smartphone, Chinese chemical sellers will air-ship fentanyl ingredients door-to-door to North America. Reuters purchased enough to make 3 million pills. Such deals are astonishingly easy—and reveal how drug traffickers are eluding efforts to halt the deadly trade behind the fentanyl crisis.”
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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 Fugitive Childhood of a Cocaine Smuggler’s Daughters
“When their parents ripped two young sisters from their privileged lives, gave them fake names, and took them on the lam, they thought it was because their father was in trouble with the IRS. It would be years before they learned the truth about his life of crime.”
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The After, and Our Top 5
An excerpt from the graphic memoir “Opioids & Organs,” the latest from The Atavist, and our Top 5.
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A Year in Reading: Inward Journeys
Navigating a world in flux demands some understanding of who you really are, and some of my favorite pieces from this year speak to that need.
