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The Week’s Best Longreads: The Daily Beast Picks for October 27, 2012

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

Solitary in Iran Nearly Broke Me. Then I Went Inside America’s Prisons.Shane Bauer, Mother Jones We throw thousands of men in the hole for the books they read, the company they keep, the beliefs they hold. Here’s why.

The Voter-Fraud MythJane Mayer, The New YorkerThe man who stoked fear of impostors at the polls.

A Ruling Family’s Hidden RichesDavid Barboza, The New York TimesHow did so many relatives of China’s prime minister go from rags to riches since he’s been in office?

Growing Up RomneyNoam Schreiber, The New RepublicMitt, Tagg, and the Romney family myth of self-reliance.

The Truck Stop KillerVanessa Veselka, GQHe was methodical, he rode the highways, and he preyed on teenage girls no one would miss. In the summer of 1985, the author was such a girl. Now, years later, she returns to the scenes of her fugitive youth looking for clues to that terror—and the girls who lost their lives to it.

The New Pot Barons Tony Dokoupil, Newsweek Pot use in the United States is rising sharply, and voters may make it fully legal in two states this fall. Smart businessmen are banking on that happening.

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