The Week’s Best Longreads: The Daily Beast Picks for Feb. 18, 2012
From the wild rise and fall of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom to the making of gay-marriage foe Maggie Gallagher, The Daily Beast picks the best journalism from around the Web this week.
A Newsman Breaks the Mold in the Arab World
Anthony Shadid, The Washington Post
In this story from 2006, Anthony Shadid, who died of an asthma attack Thursday while covering Syria for The New York Times, profiled the editor of Dubai’s al-Arabiya news channel. (For more of Shadid’s best stories, click here.)
Kim Dotcom, Pirate King
Brian Gruley, David Fickling, and Cornelius Rahn, Bloomberg Businessweek
Is Megaupload's founder a criminal mastermind, or the world's most entertaining scapegoat? A file-sharing wizard's ridiculous rise and fall.
The Making of a Gay Marriage Foe
Mark Oppenheimer, Salon
How Maggie Gallagher's college pregnancy made her a single mom, and a traditional-marriage zealot.
How Companies Learn Your Secrets
Charles Duhigg, The New York Times Magazine
Your shopping habits reveal even the most personal information—like when you’re going to have a baby.
Rhino Wars
Peter Gwin, National Geographic
The horn, whose black-market value rivals that of gold, could be the rhino's curse—or salvation.
How State Beat Church
Andrew Sullivan, Newsweek
Conservatives gleefully revived the culture wars. But they’re not winning. How Obama set a trap for the right.
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