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        The Week’s Best Longreads: The Daily Beast Picks for March 3, 2012

        LONGREADS

        The Daily Beast picks the best journalism from around the Web this week. By David Sessions.

        David Sessions

        Updated Jul. 13, 2017 12:08PM ET / Published Mar. 03, 2012 12:00AM ET 

        Why the Global Warming Skeptics Are Wrong William D. Nordhaus, New York Review of Books

        A scientist responds to climate change deniers who distorted his work.

        2012 or NeverJonathan Chait, New York

        And if the GOP can’t win this one, what does that mean for its future? The real reasons behind the party’s existential panic.

        Luv and War at 30,000 FeetS.C. Gwynne, Texas Monthly

        Since the late ’80s, every major airline in the country has gone bankrupt—except one. How on earth did scrappy, lovable, cut-rate Southwest hunt down its competition and emerge from all of the turbulence as the nation’s largest domestic carrier?

        The Wrath of Putin Masha Gessen, Vanity Fair

        Mikhail Khodorkovsky was the richest man in Russia when he dared confront then president Vladimir Putin. As elections approach and demonstrators spill into the streets, Masha Gessen chronicles the clash of two titans, each of whom has badly underestimated the other.

        Twitter, The Startup That Wouldn’t DieBrad Stone, Businessweek

        Twitter turns a corner.

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