Posts under ‘A Reporter at Large’

Gangland
Life in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.
by Jon Lee Anderson
Take the two minutes to read the laugh out loud Shouts and Murmurs “Spousal Support”
by Zev Borow.

Trial by Fire
Did Texas execute an innocent man?
by David Grann
There’s also a brief video on the role of flashover in the fire investigation and Lime Street experiment.

Travels in Siberia—II
Following poets and prisoners.
by Ian Frazier
Part I is great too.

The Kill Company
Behind a war crime in Iraq.
by Raffi Khatchadourian

The Sixth Extinction?
The earth’s species in peril.
by Elizabeth Kolbert

Lives of the Saints
International hardship duty in Chad.
by Jonathan Harr

Anatomy of a Meltdown
Ben Bernanke interprets the crisis.
by John Cassidy

The Last Tour
A casualty of post-traumatic stress disorder.
by William Finnegan

Dr. Kush
How medical marijuana is transforming the pot industry.
by David Samuels

The Island in the Wind
A Danish community’s victory over carbon emissions.
by Elizabeth Kolbert