Lewis Beale

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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The Bloody Reign of Terror That Almost Destroyed the Amazon

In this lawless land, to be an activist or peasant fighting against land grabs and slave labor-like working conditions is courting death.

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Sesame Street Became a Rocky Road on Its Way Into Russia

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.

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THE PARANOID STYLE

Was This the Absolute Worst Period in American History?

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.

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He Was Innocent. He Served Eight Years Anyway

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.

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The ‘Mormon Manson’ and His Family’s Mexican Massacre

Ervil LeBaron was a murderous white supremacist and religious fundamentalist, nine of whose followers were slaughtered in a 2019 cartel killing.

Lewis Beale

Lewis Beale

The Bloody Reign of Terror That Almost Destroyed the Amazon

Sesame Street Became a Rocky Road on Its Way Into Russia

Was This the Absolute Worst Period in American History?

He Was Innocent. He Served Eight Years Anyway

The ‘Mormon Manson’ and His Family’s Mexican Massacre

Tracy Flick Has Changed a Lot and Turns Out We Have Too

N.Y. Took More Than a Century to Acknowledge a Lynching

He Shot the World’s First Movie—and Then Disappeared

Why Putin Is Itching to Get His Hands on This Ex-U.S. Banker

How Criminal Profiling Foiled a Serial-Killing Boy Scout