A REPORTER AT LARGE
Schooled
Cory Booker, Chris Christie, and Mark Zuckerberg had a plan to reform Newark’s schools. They got an education.
by Dale Russakoff
Schooled
Category Archives: A Reporter at Large
A New Kind of Spy & The Hunt for El Chapo
DEPT. OF ESPIONAGE
A New Kind of Spy
How China obtains American technological secrets.
by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
A REPORTER AT LARGE
The Hunt for El Chapo
How the world’s most notorious drug lord was captured.
by Patrick Radden Keefe
The Comandante’s Canal
A REPORTER AT LARGE
The Comandante’s Canal
Will a grand national project enrich Nicaragua, or only its leader?
by Jon Lee Anderson
Ottomania & Cheap Words
LETTER FROM ISTANBUL
OTTOMANIA
A hit TV show reimagines Turkey’s imperial past.
by Elif Batuman
A REPORTER AT LARGE
CHEAP WORDS
Amazon is good for customers. But is it good for books?
by George Packer
Death Dust
A REPORTER AT LARGE
Death Dust
The valley-fever menace.
by Dana Goodyear
A Very Rare Book
A REPORTER AT LARGE
A Very Rare Book
The mystery surrounding a copy of Galileo’s pivotal treatise.
by Nicholas Schmidle
Gangland: Life in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.
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?
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.
Travels in Siberia—II
Following poets and prisoners.
by Ian Frazier
The Kill Company: Behind a war crime in Iraq.
The Kill Company
Behind a war crime in Iraq.
by Raffi Khatchadourian