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Hitman-for-hire darknet sites are all scams. But some people turn up dead nonetheless
By: Sarah Hepola   |   Texas Monthly   |   Sept 2022
They’re global icons who have left a lasting imprint on American culture. But do recent controversies threaten the squad’s future?
By: Derek Thompson   |   The Atlantic   |   https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/04/american-teens-sadness-depression-anxiety/629524/
Four forces are propelling the rising rates of depression among young people.
By: Tom Lamont   |   GQ   |   Aug 2022
What happens when two Hollywood actors who know nothing about soccer buy a middling pro team in Wales? GQ’s Tom Lamont spent a season following football's newest fans to find out.
By: Andrew R.C. Marshall & Joseph Tanfani   |   Reuters   |   Aug 2022
BitChute and Odysee serve up conspiracies, racism and graphic violence to millions of viewers. Taking advantage of Big Tech disinformation crackdowns and the rise of Trump, the sites reflect a new media universe – one where COVID-19 is fake, Russia fights Nazis in Ukraine, and mass shootings are ‘false flag’ operations.
By: Peter Andrey Smith   |   Pacific Standard   |   July 2019
Pharmaceutical companies exploited a regulatory loophole that allowed for a decades-long boom in licit opioid production fueled by Tasmanian-grown poppies. Here's what the island can tell us—and why supply matters for solving the third wave of the overdose crisis.
By: Nick Bilton   |   Vanity Fair   |   Feb 2019
At the end, Theranos was overrun by a dog defecating in the boardroom, nearly a dozen law firms on retainer, and a C.E.O. grinning through her teeth about an implausible turnaround.
A Philadelphia teenager and the empty promise of the Sixth Amendment