“I asked about imitating the Uvalde attacker, defending against police gunfire, and more—everything short of directly stating intent to kill.”
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All My Dad’s Sons
“At a very young age, I learned a lot about how life can go wrong. It put things into perspective, even if that perspective was a little warped.”
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Shall We Play a Game?
“Historian Jon Peterson traces the route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement.”
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The Search
“More than thirteen years ago, Araceli Salcedo Jiménez’s daughter, Rubí, was disappeared from a bar in Orizaba. Since then, Araceli has led an effort to dig up hundreds of clandestine graves looking for the victims of Mexico’s drug war. She is still digging.”
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The Death of a Superman
“An entirely avoidable problem is killing dozens of homeless people across the country. Why is it being ignored?”
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Field Notes from a Body
“As I watched I had felt a nameless churn in my gut, some tremor of feeling I couldn’t describe.”
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The Docteur Is In
“The Congolese rumba pioneer Docteur Nico helped define the sound of African decolonization—and became one of the great visionaries of the electric guitar.”
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The Shooting of Two Cornell Freshmen, 42 Years Later
“In 1983 six students were taken hostage in a Cornell dormitory. Two of them were killed. How have the survivors reckoned with what happened to them, and what made us forget about this act of violence?”
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A Hockey Dad, a Cartel, and a $12 Million Fraud
“Kota Youngblood told his neighbors there were hits out on their lives — and only he could save them.”
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She Tried to Kill a President. He Loved Her Anyway.
“A retired widower married Sara Jane Moore, who shot at President Ford in 1975. It tore his family apart.”