The Week’s Best Longreads: The Daily Beast Picks for September 1, 2012
The Daily Beast picks the best journalism from around the Web this week. By David Sessions.
“Greed and Debt” Matt Taibbi, Rolling StoneHow Mitt Romney and his private equity firm staged an epic wealth grab, destroyed jobs, and stuck others with the bill.
“Before Gunfire, Hints of ‘Bad News’” Erica Goode, Serge S. Kovaleski, Jack Healy and Dan Frosch, The New York TimesJames Holmes’s mysterious descent from shy graduate student to mass murderer.
“Teen Titan” Lizzie Widdicombe, The New YorkerThe man who made Justin Bieber.
“Catch Me If You Can” Dean King, OutsideFrom the perspective of an autistic, 8-year-old boy who went missing in a Virginia park, the largest manhunt in state history was the ultimate game of hide-and-seek.
“Revolt of the Rich” Mike Lofgren, The American ConservativeAmerica’s financial elites are the new secessionists.
“A Dancer’s Demons” Julie Kavanagh, Intelligent LifeA few months ago Sergei Polunin walked out on a golden career with the Royal Ballet, sounding like a lost boy. What was going on? And what happened next?
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