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Former Ukrainian intelligence officers spent seven years compiling a database of Russia’s notorious mercenaries.

Michael Weiss | New Lines Magazine | Dec 2021

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Their community forged by industry, residents of Badin, North Carolina confront the long shadow of racism and pollution.

Emily Cataneo | Undark | Dec 2021

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Inside the effort to exonerate the “Starved Rock Killer.” After 60 years behind bars for one of this state’s most infamous crimes, Chester Weger is out to prove his innocence with DNA testing.

Jake Malooley | Chicago Magazine | Dec 2021

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Could tinkering with photosynthesis prevent a global food crisis?

Elizabeth Kolbert | New Yorker | Dec 2021

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How reading can lead to resilience in the most trying times.

Ted Scheinman | Los Angeles Review of Books | Dec 2021

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Inside a 45-day fight.

Molly Crabapple | The Nation | Dec 2021

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The 72-year-old is still making movies that shock.

Marcela Valdes | The New York Times Magazine | Dec 2021

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A primer on how the smartphone generation is redefining communication.

Mary H.K. Choi | Wired | Aug 2016

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Why is life in this country so hostile to single people?

Anne Helen Petersen | The Goods | Dec 2021

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As the summer months stretched into fall, Justin Edwards would sometimes bump into the man wanted for his attempted murder.

Kyle Hopkins | Anchorage Daily News | Dec 2021

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A food-world star’s method and mess.

Lauren Collins | New Yorker | Dec 2021

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On Tse Chi Lop, “the Jeff Bezos of the drug trade” and ringleader of a $21-billion crime syndicate.

Stephen Marche | Toronto Life | Nov 2021

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Against all predictions, the Taliban took the Afghan capital in a matter of hours. This is the story of why and what came after, by a reporter and photographer who witnessed it all.

Matthieu Aikins | New York Times Magazine | Dec 2021

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In his 90th year, L.A.’s finest living writer discusses his heroes and inspirations, the anti-gay and anti-Mexican prejudices he’s weathered and the wisdom accrued over a miraculous life.

Jeff Weiss | the LAnd magazine | Dec 2021

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How online sales of highly regulated, super-toxic rodenticides exploit gaps in the law and imperil wildlife.

Chris Sweeney | Audubon | Dec 2021

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How NFL wide receiver Demaryius Thomas lost his mother and grandmother to drug dealing, and how he plans on bringing them home.

Eli Saslow | ESPN | Nov 2014

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On a remote island in Maine, a group of friends thought they witnessed one man killing another with an ax. But no one was ever arrested. In a small town far out at sea, justice sometimes works a little differently.

Jesse Ellison | Esquire | Dec 2021