“High-speed accidents, crooked lawyers, and poor people desperate for cash—it was the kind of scheme that could have been cooked up only in the Big Easy.”
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The Most Feared and Least Known Political Operative in America
“Susie Wiles helped dismantle Ron DeSantis and salvaged Donald Trump’s campaign. Is she a MAGA hero or an enemy of democracy?”
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The Last Days of the Rainbow Warrior
“In 1985, a group of spies had a target—and a plan. It turned into one of the most sensationally botched crimes of the century.”
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He Was One of the World’s Most Wanted Men. So He Bought a West African Country.
“How Jos Leijdekkers turned Sierra Leone into a drug-dealer’s paradise.”
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How to Throw Bombs, Save Lives, and Raise a Family in Paradise on $22 an Hour
“The dust has settled on negotiations, but the conversations about what ski-industry workers deserve may just be getting started.”
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One Man’s Quest for the End of the World Started on a Ranch in Texas
“A Texas businessman believes he was divinely chosen to help usher in the Second Coming of Christ—by finding unblemished red heifers and getting them to Israel.”
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On Japan’s Post Office For Letters to the Dead
“Sally Hayden explores the ways we cope with loss in times of crisis.”
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Mount Fear Diary
“Speaking to the dead can, for a short while, seem to place us outside the laws of nature—outside the rules governing time and space.”
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‘Do You Have a Family?’: Midlife With No Kids, Ageing Parents–and No Crisis
“Three generations: dead, old, and middle-aged.”
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Zackery Died After Climbing on Top of a Subway Train. Who Is to Blame?
“Norma Nazario didn’t understand what had motivated her 15-year-old son to climb on top of a train one evening. Then she found his phone.”
