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Shadows in São Paulo
Obsessed with an image of four men on a rooftop in Brazil, the author went on a quest to find its origins. By Teju Cole.
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Everything Is for Sale
Life along the longest yard sale in the world. By Helen Rosner.
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Pablo Escobar: An Unlikely Pop-Culture Icon
Colombia’s most infamous drug lord has become a tourist attraction. Jesse Katz takes us on a trip to Pablo-land.
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Chasing Bayla
Biologist Michael Moore had waited all day — really, all his life — for the whale to surface, the suffering giant he thought he could save, that science had to save. It had come down to this... By Sarah Schweitzer.
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The village where men are banned
Only women are allowed to live in Umoja. Julie Bindel visits the Kenyan village that began as a refuge for survivors of sexual violence – and discovers its inhabitants are thriving in the single-sex community. By Julie Bindel.
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My Grandfather’s Imposter
The Explorer’s Club headquarters fill a five-story Jacobean townhouse on East 70th Street in Manhattan. The inside looks lifted from the opening scenes of an Indiana Jones movie: Wood panels, stuffed leopards snarling, mounted expedition flags, and photographs of triumphant explorers line the walls... By James McGirk.
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Myanmar and the game nobody wins
A trip to Myanmar finds the sport that explains nothing and everything about the country at once. By Spencer Hall.
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A Jewish Journalist’s Exclusive Look Inside Iran
Larry Cohler-Esses traveled to Iran on the first journalism visa granted to a Jewish publication since 1979. What he found is a country on the brink of change — but the final outcome remains uncertain.
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Wakhan, An Other Afghanistan
Journeying through a remote region of northeastern Afghanistan, untouched by the war and preserved from the Taliban regime, this story pays tribute to the ancient culture of this land, which has never disappeared but which has simply been forgotten. By Varial Cédric Houin.
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Built for Eternity
When humanity plans on a geologic time scale. By Elmo Keep.
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Riding the Sandworm
Finally, there it was. When we climbed to the top of the wagon, tired but excited, unsteady as our feet sunk in the heap of iron that filled it to the brim, my friend Ammar and I congratulated each other, our faces lit by the faint glow of each other’s headlamp. It was almost midnight… By Michael Huniewicz.
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Hiroshima
How six survivors experienced the atomic bomb and its aftermath. By John Hersey. (August 31, 1946)
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The Arc of the Sun
A gorgeous meditation on the longing for home, set at the South African Million Dollar Pigeon Race. By David Samuels.
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Yemen’s Hidden War
A journey into one of the most remote and dangerous countries in the world. By Matthieu Aikins.
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Graf Zeppelin 1929 Around Globe Trip
(Full Documentary)
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Hanoi’s Capitalist Revolution
Free markets, private businesses, malls, and a middle class -- not what Ho Chi Minh had in mind. By Michael J. Totten.
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Stowaways and Crimes Aboard a Scofflaw Ship
Few places on earth are as free from legal oversight as the high seas. One ship has been among the most persistent offenders. By Ian Urbina.
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Sky High
Among the Pyros at One of the Biggest Fireworks Competitions in the World
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‘I Don’t Believe in God, but I Believe in Lithium’
My 20-year struggle with bipolar disorder.
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American Hippopotamus
A bracing and eccentric epic of espionage and hippos. By Jon Mooallem.
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