despoiling eden
In this lawless land, to be an activist or peasant fighting against land grabs and slave labor-like working conditions is courting death.
Lewis Beale is a former staff reporter for the Los Angeles Daily News, Detroit Free Press and New York Daily News.
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Adapting the upbeat children’s show for Russian audiences in the ’90s proved an uphill battle in a country inclined to tragedy and melancholy. And then there was the Russian mafia.
THE PARANOID STYLE
From 1917 to 1921 it became almost impossible to distinguish between the actions of right-wing vigilantes and the agents of the U.S. government.
efficiency first
Stephen Schulz is just one of many convicted by a legal system more committed to conviction rates and clearing dockets than to a search for truth.
UNSOLVED
Ervil LeBaron was a murderous white supremacist and religious fundamentalist, nine of whose followers were slaughtered in a 2019 cartel killing.
STUCK IN HIGH SCHOOL
It’s been more than two decades since novelist Tom Perrotta left his most famous protagonist’s future an open question. Finally he fills in the blanks.
IT CAN HAPPEN HERE
In 1892 a Port Jervis mob hanged a Black man. It caused a commotion, says historian Philip Dray, but not a reckoning.
LOST IN TIME
Louis Le Prince was a pioneer and competitor of Thomas Edison. His sudden, mysterious disappearance from a Paris-bound train has never been explained. Until now…
ON THE RUN
Moscow’s most wanted man, Bill Browder, reveals what makes the Russian president tick in his new book, “Freezing Order.”
GAME CHANGER
Stumped by a series of sordid murders in the early ’70s, Montana cops brought in a pair of FBI agents who were pioneering the new science of criminal profiling.