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The Long Con

Anatomy of a Two-Year Undercover Sting and What It Has to Do with Law Enforcement’s Habit of Wasting Large Amounts of Money on Investigating People for Their Social Habits and Political Beliefs

Brendan KileyMay 4, 2011 4:00 amAugust 10, 2023 4:46 pm

The Mystery of the Tainted Cocaine

What’s a drug used to deworm livestock—a drug that can obliterate your immune system—doing in your cocaine? Nobody knows.

Brendan KileyAugust 19, 2010 4:00 amJune 1, 2022 9:51 pm

Music

Sound Check

A Q&A with Bon Jovi’s Pyrotechnic Specialist

Trent MoormanJuly 8, 2010 4:00 amJune 1, 2022 9:53 pm

Burkas and Birkins

I Watched 146 Minutes of Sex and the City 2 and All I Got Was This Religious Fundamentalism

Lindy WestMay 27, 2010 4:00 amJuly 30, 2025 9:45 am

Things I Remember About Detroit

Five Years of Abandoned Factories, Talking Cats, and Cars on Fire

Kelly OMay 27, 2010 4:00 amJune 1, 2022 9:57 pm

Young, Poor, Lucky

A Tunnel, an Elevator Shaft, and Living on the Edge

Charles MudedeMarch 26, 2009 4:00 amJune 1, 2022 10:46 pm

Unkissed

A Fibonacci Sequence Poem

Sherman AlexieFebruary 19, 2009 4:00 amJune 1, 2022 10:48 pm

Music

Dispossessed, or, How I Lost Most of My Music Collection—and Nearly My Mind

Dave SegalDecember 23, 2008 4:00 amJune 1, 2022 10:51 pm

Searching for the Source of the Microphones’ Masterpiece

Eric GrandyApril 10, 2008 4:00 amJune 1, 2022 11:09 pm

The Long Winter

All about the time I attempted to bake 106 different kinds of Martha Stewart holiday cookies in two months. People laughed and said I was crazy. Well, I was crazy.

Megan SelingNovember 22, 2007 4:00 amSeptember 27, 2024 9:37 pm

Getting Patrick Pregnant

Scientists say it could be done. And my better half is the perfect candidate. All I have to do is convince him.

Jen GravesJuly 12, 2007 4:00 amOctober 18, 2022 6:36 pm

No and Hell No

Just Say No to Both Viaduct Measures

Erica C. BarnettFebruary 22, 2007 4:00 amJune 1, 2022 11:40 pm