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Counter-Terrorism Is Getting Complicated
by Tom Junod + Follow
Esquire | February 2012
Especially in the case of the Waffle House terrorists, where it may be the Department of Homeland Security that's fomenting terror.
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Jon Stewart and the Burden of History
by Tom Junod + Follow
Esquire | October 2011
He's not so funny anymore, and it's not only because he's come to take himself seriously. It's because in the Obama era, we're starting to see the price of refusing to stand for anything.
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Surviving the Fall
by Tom Junod + Follow
Esquire | September 2011
Ten years later, putting the Falling Man to rest.
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Father of the Year
by Tom Junod + Follow
Esquire | June 2011
People are worried about the state of boys in America. For almost twenty years, though, John Lasseter and Pixar have been helping boys grow into good men. Everything is going to be fine.
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Adventures in Extreme Science
by Tom Junod + Follow
Esquire | April 2011
From Crick and Watson through J. Craig Venter, we had all our eggs in one basket — molecular biology, gene mapping, whatever you want to call it. It failed. And now we're counting on this guy.
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Why Does Roger Ailes Hate America?
by Tom Junod + Follow
Esquire | February 2011
An exclusive and unbiased investigation into the highly paid operative of a foreign-born tycoon, a man who reengineered political and media culture and fomented a revolt that threatens the very stability of our country.
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Eleven Lives
by Tom Junod + Follow
Esquire | September 2010
The oil will have stopped gushing into the Gulf. The shoreline and the estuaries and the beaches will have been scrubbed clean by man and nature. BP and Transocean will have resumed business as usual. But the original wound will never heal. This is the story of what's been lost.
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My Mom Couldn't Cook
by Tom Junod + Follow
Esquire | September 2010
Can't a man get a break from the kitchen every now and then? Recipes and wisdom from women who happen to be great chefs. (With words of appreciation from a few well-fed men.)
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Invasion
by Tom Junod + Follow
Esquire | July 2010
You think it'd be impossible to share your house with your wife, your daughter, and fifty million or so Argentine ants. And you would be correct.
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Eating the Whole Animal, from the Inside Out
by Tom Junod + Follow
Esquire | April 2010
In the mail comes a plastic bag: hearts, brains, even some balls. And that's just the beginning of this offal experiment.