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Truth or Consequences
by Joe Hagan + Follow
Texas Monthly | May 2012
Eight years ago, Dan Rather broadcast an explosive report on the Air National Guard service of President George W. Bush. It was supposed to be the legendary newsman’s finest hour. Instead, it blew up in his face, tarnishing his career forever. Joe Hagan finally gets to the bottom of the greatest untold story in modern Texas politics, with exclusive, never-before-seen details that shed fresh light on who was right, who was wrong, and what really happened.
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Why Are Prisoners Committing Suicide in Pennsylvania?
by Matt Stroud + Follow
The Nation | May 2012
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Why Do They Hate Us?
by Mona Eltahawy + Follow
Foreign Policy | May 2012
The real war on women is in the Middle East.
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Downward Dog
by Mimi Swartz + Follow
Texas Monthly | May 2012
John Friend is the charismatic founder of Anusara, a style of yoga started in The Woodlands fifteen years ago. Pose by pose, he built Anusara into a hugely popular global brand, with adherents everywhere from Japan to Israel. Then he found himself entangled in a string of bizarre accusations. Can Texas’s most famous yogi get himself free?
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The War on Women: Sex-Trafficking Edition
by Stephanie Mencimer + Follow
Mother Jones | May 2012
How far are the Catholic bishops willing to go with their crackdown on reproductive health? Just ask a teenage girl forced into prostitution.
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Uncatchable
by Michael Finkel + Follow
GQ | May 2012
George Wright, America's most elusive fugitive, ran for forty years. He ran from the cops after escaping from prison. He ran from the feds after the most brazen hijacking in history. He ran from the authorities on three continents, hiding out and blending in wherever he went. It was a historic run—and now that it's over, he might just pull off the greatest escape of all
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Weed Whackers
by Damon Tabor + Follow
Outside | May 2012
Things have gotten crazy violent in the dark, dense forests of California’s Mendocino County, where pot growers from Mexico run elaborate plantations they’ll defend to the death. Damon Tabor saddles up with Sheriff Tom Allman, head of a helicopter-riding, rifle-toting paramilitary strike force determined to take back the woods.
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Murder on Montana Ave.
by Tessa Stuart + Follow
LA Weekly | May 2012
Was Los Angeles school teacher Sasha Merman slain to hide Daniel Becerril's greed?
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Château Sucker
by Benjamin Wallace + Follow
New York | May 2012
Rare-wine collectors are savvy, competitive guys with a taste for impossible finds. So how did the biggest hoax in history take place right under their noses?
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"Gary Jones" Wants Your Nudes
by Camille Dodero + Follow
The Village Voice | May 2012
Is one hacker behind many of the "revenge-porn" photos that were posted on Hunter Moore's Is Anyone Up?