The Week’s Best Longreads for April 20, 2013
The Daily Beast picks the best journalism from around the Web this week. By David Sessions.
“The Story Behind the Bombers”Christopher Dickey, Eli Lake, and Daniel Klaidman, Newsweek
Did al Qaeda ideology inspire the attack, or were the two brothers driven by other motivations?
“The Hell of American Day Care”Jonathan Cohn, The New Republic
An investigation into the barely regulated, unsafe business of looking after our children.
“The Martian Chroniclers”Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker
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A new era in planetary exploration.
“Waking Up on the Wrong Side of the Ratings War”Brian Stelter, The New York Times Magazine
How a toxic clash of personalities cost NBC’s Today its No. 1 ranking. Matt Lauer may yet lead the show back to the top spot, but the morning is tougher now than ever.
“David Koresh’s Tragic Spell”Tim Madigan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Twenty years later the survivors of the controversial FBI siege in Waco still remember.
“Apex Predator”Brian Lam, Popular Science
Can a crew of scientists and volunteers armed with homemade trackers save sharks from extinction?
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