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Death and burial

The Guantánamo “Suicides,” Revisited

by Scott Horton,

A missing document suggests a possible CIA cover-up

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

by Monte Reel,

Predicting murder on Chicago’s South Side

Portrait of a Township

by Justine van der Leun,

Former militants take on the post-apartheid struggle

This Will Be the Last

by Monique Mabelly,Translated by Ryann Liebenthal,

By Monique Mabelly, from an account of the September 9, 1977, execution by guillotine, at Marseille’s Baumettes prison, of Tunisian prisoner Hamida Djandoubi, published in Le Monde last October. Mabelly,…

Sirocco

by Michael Christopher Brown,

Blood Spore

by Hamilton Morris,

Of murder and mushrooms

Trio Grande

by Thomas Frank,

The lady who changed the world,” was how The Economist described Margaret Thatcher in its obituary. Whether or not we believe that individuals ever wield such power over history, it…

Final Jeopardy

From more than 200 questions posed by jurors over two days in March during the trial of Jodi Arias. Arias, who stands accused of the 2008 murder of her former…

The Unraveling of Bo Xilai

by Lauren Hilgers,

China loses a populist star

Our Man in Jabberlon

From a September 12, 2012, post by The Mittani, a member of the Goonswarm alliance in the role-playing game Eve Online, on a website that provides news about the fictional…

Marxist Economics

From a complaint filed September 7, 2012, by Stephanie Kirschner and Brad J. Kane against the owners and operators of Eden Memorial Park, a cemetery in Mission Hills, California. In…