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The Thin Purple Line

The dubious rise of the private-security industry

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What Goes Up

Does the rise of index funds spell catastrophe?

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The Life and Death of Hollywood

Film and television writers face an existential threat

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The Eviction Experts

Can a city stop a housing crisis?

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Israel’s War Within

On the ruinous history of Religious Zionism

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The Machine Breaker

Inside the mind of an “ecoterrorist”

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Waiting for the Lights

The life of an Iranian exile

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At Random

The business of books and the merger that wasn’t

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Letterman

The surgeon who signed his work

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A Hole in the Head

Can a brain implant treat drug addiction?

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Tree Sleuths

How DNA is transforming the fight against illegal logging

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The Victim Cloud

Gullibility in the golden age of scams

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Night Shifts

Can technology shape our dreams?

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Voice Lessons

How coaches get in athletes’ heads

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The Great Wall of Steel

Xi Jinping remakes Chinese nationalism

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Ad Astra

The coming battle over space

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To Be a Field of Poppies

The elegant science of turning cadavers into compost

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Bad News

Selling the story of disinformation

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Stages of Grief

What the pandemic has done to the arts

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Sign of the Times

Caliphate and the perils of reporting online

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Lost in Thought

The psychological risks of meditation

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In the Net

For years, Michael Ransford had known he would need surgery for his umbilical hernia. “People said if it ruptured, it could kill me,” the sixty-year-old farmer told me. The pain…

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Skin in the Game

Wall Street’s answer to the student-debt crisis

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America’s Game

The reprise and demise of the XFL

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The Big Tech Extortion Racket

How Google, Amazon, and Facebook control our lives

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On Moral Injury

Can a new diagnosis help heal our souls?

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We Shall Not Be Moved

Collective ownership gives power back to poor farmers

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