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The Journalist and the Troll: This Man Spent Two Years Trying to Destroy Me Online
Bloomberg Businessweek

The Journalist and the Troll: This Man Spent Two Years Trying to Destroy Me Online

A financier named Benjamin we has spent two years telling the world I'm a bigot, a liar, a thief, and worse.

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March 21 - March 27, 2016
Cuba's Socialist Regime Drags Its Feet On Trade With US
Bloomberg Businessweek

Cuba's Socialist Regime Drags Its Feet On Trade With US

Despite U.S. overtures, the island’s entrenched socialists remain intransigent about trade.

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March 21 - March 27, 2016
Access Granted: How to Get the Travel Visa You Need
Business Traveler

Access Granted: How to Get the Travel Visa You Need

Your travel plans are confirmed – but you won’t be going anywhere unless you have the right visa.

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7 mins  |
March 2016
The Elusive Maggie Thatcher
The Atlantic

The Elusive Maggie Thatcher

Why distorting Mrs. T. has been a popular literary pastime.  

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7 mins  |
March 2016
Brazil's Corruption Scandal Grows Ever Nearer To Rousseff
Bloomberg Businessweek

Brazil's Corruption Scandal Grows Ever Nearer To Rousseff

Arrests and new charges further inflame the political crisis around Brazil’s president.

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March 14 - March 20, 2016
Fukushima: Five Years Later
Popular Science

Fukushima: Five Years Later

Japan is still cleaning up one of the worst nuclear disasters the world has ever seen. Steve Featherstone went there to see how much they have accomplished and how far they have to go.

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March - April 2016
Drone-Mounted Handgun, Flamethrower Reignites Debate
Techlife News

Drone-Mounted Handgun, Flamethrower Reignites Debate

Theres nothing like staring skywards for a stress-busting, atmospheric, out-of-this world experience. Try a trip that combines stargazing with adventure

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March 06,2016
What China Could Learn From Richard Nixon
The Atlantic

What China Could Learn From Richard Nixon

The country’s growth is inexorably slowing. The wrong response could make that problem much worse.

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March 2016
Who Unplugged North Korea From the Internet?
The Hollywood Reporter

Who Unplugged North Korea From the Internet?

A new book reveals for the first time exactly what an elite group of government ops did after a ‘shockingly lax’ Sony, ‘protected by the lamest passwords— on the order of 12345,’ was hacked.

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Double Issue - March 11-18, 2016
A Free-Market Plan to Save the American West From Drought
The Atlantic

A Free-Market Plan to Save the American West From Drought

A maverick investor is buying up water rights in the West. Could his plan solve the region’s water crisis?

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March 2016
China Requires Approval for Foreign Firms to Publish Online
Techlife News

China Requires Approval for Foreign Firms to Publish Online

Shreedutta Chidanada takes a look at limited overs cricket’s five best spinners since the start of 2015.

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February 28,2016
A Surging Group of American Teens Are Excelling At Advanced Math. Why?
The Atlantic

A Surging Group of American Teens Are Excelling At Advanced Math. Why?

What’s behind the surge in American teens who are highly fluent in high-order math.

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March 2016
China Could Beat Hollywood by 2017
Bloomberg Businessweek

China Could Beat Hollywood by 2017

​ China’s movie industry is becoming a dominant force. 

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4 mins  |
February 29 - March 6, 2016
Why It's So Hard To Run An Abortion Clinic
Bloomberg Businessweek

Why It's So Hard To Run An Abortion Clinic

Why it's so hard to open an abortion clinic - and why so many are closing.

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February 29 - March 6, 2016
Could This Banker Save the South China Tiger From Extinction?
Bloomberg Businessweek

Could This Banker Save the South China Tiger From Extinction?

Can Stuart Bray get his South China tigers back to South China?

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10+ mins  |
February 29 - March 6, 2016
Why Attacking ISIS Won’t Make Americans Safer
The Atlantic

Why Attacking ISIS Won’t Make Americans Safer

Presidential candidates claim that attacking ISIS will make Americans safer. The opposite is true.

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March 2016
Three Days Behind the Counter at a Vegas Gun Shop
Bloomberg Businessweek

Three Days Behind the Counter at a Vegas Gun Shop

Three days behind the gun counter in Las Vegas.

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February 22 - February 28, 2016
Planned Parenthood - A Latina Lifeline Under Fire
Latina

Planned Parenthood - A Latina Lifeline Under Fire

Planned Parenthood is the leading provider of reproductive health services in the United States, and now the most misunderstood and attacked. The crisis is vivid in Florida, home to the country's largest Caribbean Latino population.

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March 2016
Will the Supreme Court Just Disappear?
New York magazine

Will the Supreme Court Just Disappear?

Its power is derived from custom and deference. How old-fashioned.

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February 22 – March 6, 2016
The Netflix of Africa Doesn’t Need Hollywood to Win
Bloomberg Businessweek

The Netflix of Africa Doesn’t Need Hollywood to Win

Does the low-budget, DIY, Nollywood-movie-streaming, "Netflix of Africa" have enough of a lead to hold off the real Netflix?

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February 22 - February 28, 2016
How Scalia Kept the Little Guys Out of Court
Bloomberg Businessweek

How Scalia Kept the Little Guys Out of Court

Antonin Scalia changed the rules on who could sue, and not in a way that helped consumers and employees.

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February 22 - February 28, 2016
How Do You Stop the Biggest Gas Leak Ever?
Bloomberg Businessweek

How Do You Stop the Biggest Gas Leak Ever?

Plugging the biggest gas leak on record.

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February 15 - February 21, 2016
Inside a Plot to Overthrow the President of the Gambia
The Atlantic

Inside a Plot to Overthrow the President of the Gambia

What happened when 11 audacious exiles armed themselves for a violent night in the Gambia.

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March 2016
India Internet Ruling Blocks Facebook 'Free Basics' Program
Techlife News

India Internet Ruling Blocks Facebook 'Free Basics' Program

In a city where the nights are ruled by music, a twentysomething Swede is running the show.

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February 14,2016
How America Is Putting Itself Back Together
The Atlantic

How America Is Putting Itself Back Together

Most Americans believe the country is going to hell. They’re wrong. What a three-year journey by single-engine plane reveals about reinvention and renewal and about how the Second Gilded Age might end.

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March 2016
Oil & Stocks Take the Plunge
Bloomberg Businessweek

Oil & Stocks Take the Plunge

Wherever crude goes, equities go. What will it take to restore some rationality to the market?

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10 mins  |
February 15 - February 21, 2016
The Teddy Bear Needs A Hug
Backpacker

The Teddy Bear Needs A Hug

In Louisiana, a fight is brewing over the country's most endangered Bruin. 

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10+ mins  |
February/March 2016
Welcome to the Age of Robot Animals
New York magazine

Welcome to the Age of Robot Animals

Why build robots when you can just tweak animals?

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6 mins  |
February 8–21, 2016
The Female Solidarity, Have-It-All, Feel-Good Machine
Bloomberg Businessweek

The Female Solidarity, Have-It-All, Feel-Good Machine

Feminism is being branded and sold like never before. Who is it really helping?

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February 8 - February 14, 2016
Zika Is the Next Front in the Mosquito Wars
Bloomberg Businessweek

Zika Is the Next Front in the Mosquito Wars

 Based on damage from malaria and dengue, the spread of Zika will prove costly.

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February 8 - February 14, 2016