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His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman

The best-selling author on his new fairy tale collection, writerly superstitions, and what his daemon would look like.

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| Fri Nov. 9, 2012 4:00 AM PST
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Big Sugar's Sweet Little Lies

How the industry kept scientists from asking: Does sugar kill?

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| Wed Oct. 31, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

Living Apart: How the Government Betrayed a Landmark Civil Rights Law

In the early 1900s, African Americans abandoned the South for better lives in the North. Discriminatory landlords and government policies crowded them into ghettos, transforming the demographics of America’s largest cities.

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| Mon Oct. 29, 2012 10:59 AM PDT
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Solitary in Iran Nearly Broke Me. Then I Went Inside America's Prisons.

We throw thousands of men in the hole for the books they read, the company they keep, the beliefs they hold. Here's why.

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| Mon Sep. 24, 2012 5:58 PM PDT

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Longreads: 5 Diseases You Didn't Know to Worry About

Great long-form journalism on diseases that have been resurrected by antibiotic resistance, spread by climate change, or just been completely baffling.

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| Fri Sep. 28, 2012 3:00 AM PDT
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The Other Death Sentence

More than 100,000 Americans are destined to spend their final years in prison. Can we afford it?

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| Tue Sep. 25, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

Fishing Without a Safety Net

Commercial fishing is America's deadliest job. So why is it virtually unregulated?

By Ronnie Greene, The Center for Public Integrity

 | Wed Aug. 22, 2012 3:01 AM PDT

Your Weekend Longreads List on Ayn Rand

Take some me time to catch up on the personal history and philosophy of the writer Paul Ryan called "required reading."

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| Fri Aug. 17, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

Your Weekend Longreads List on the Genetics of Life

Five stories about family, politics, and self-identity—viewed through the lens of our genetic building blocks.

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| Fri Jul. 27, 2012 3:00 AM PDT
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"Everyone Only Wants Temps"

My stint doing "on demand" grunt work for one of America's hottest growth industries.

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| Mon Jul. 16, 2012 3:00 AM PDT
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The Dog That Voted and Other Election Fraud Yarns

The GOP's 10-year campaign to gin up voter fraud hysteria—and bring back Jim Crow at the ballot box.

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| Tue Jul. 3, 2012 3:00 AM PDT
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Your Weekend Longreads List on Dark Money

Some of MoJo's favorite in-depth stories on money and American politics from the New Yorker, Texas Monthly, and our own reporters.

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| Fri Jun. 22, 2012 3:00 AM PDT
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Follow the Dark Money

The down and dirty history of secret spending, PACs gone wild, and the epic four-decade fight over the only kind of political capital that matters.

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| Tue Jun. 19, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

The Few. The Proud. The Afflicted.

A bunch of scrappy, tough-talking ex-Marines just might hold the key to what causes breast cancer.

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| Wed May. 16, 2012 2:52 PM PDT

Your Weekend Longreads List on Bullying

Great stories on bullying from Slate, The Awl, and Mother Jones.

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| Sat May. 12, 2012 12:05 AM PDT
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How a Grassroots Rebellion Won the Nation's Biggest Climate Victory

Activists have imposed a de facto moratorium on new coal—and beat the Obama EPA to the punch.

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| Mon Apr. 2, 2012 3:00 AM PDT
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Are Walmart's Chinese Factories As Bad As Apple's?

Our fiction-free investigation finds that in many cases, the company's auditors are asleep on the job.

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| Wed Mar. 21, 2012 3:00 AM PDT
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"It's Just Not Right": The Failures of Alabama's Self-Deportation Experiment

What happens when outside agitators work with state politicians to pass the nation's most draconian anti-immigrant law yet? The Cotton State learned the hard way.

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| Thu Mar. 1, 2012 4:00 AM PST

The Frog of War

Atrazine makes male frogs grow ovaries. It's in your water supply. It's also the cause of one of science's weirdest feuds ever.

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| Mon Feb. 6, 2012 4:00 AM PST
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Black Gold for the GOP

Trevor Rees-Jones made his name as a Dallas fracking pioneer. So what's he doing bankrolling political attack ads halfway across the country?

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| Mon Jan. 30, 2012 4:01 AM PST