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- Typhoid, tyranny and tax havens: The truth behind America's trendiest drink
- Fiji Water's environmental and ethical credentials have seduced the A-list, from Paris Hilton to the Obamas. But there lie dark secrets behind the shiny veneer – from the Chinese plastics plant in which its bottles are manufactured to the brutal dictat
- 2009-11-12 to bestof, business, drink, health, media, politics, pr, trendy, water by bagoly
- Caleb Crain: Bootylicious
- What do the pirates of yore tell us about their modern counterparts?
- 2009-10-11 to bestof, counterculture, democracy, history, outlaws, pirates, politics, society by soobrosa
- Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine
- The Soviets had taken game theory one step further than Kubrick, Szilard, and everyone else: They built a system to deter themselves.
- 2009-09-22 to apocalypse, bestof, cold war, doomsday, game theory, military, politics by lipi
- Q. and A.: Ben Simpfendorfer on China and the Arab World: Letter from China: Online Only: The New Yorker
- China overtook the United States as the world’s biggest exporter to the Middle East earlier this year.
- 2009-07-07 to arabic, bestof, business, china, politics, trade by soobrosa
- Simon Johnson: The Quiet Coup
- The finance industry has effectively captured the US government—a state of affairs that more typically describes emerging markets, and is at the center of many emerging-market crises.
- 2009-05-13 to bestof, crisis, economy, finance, global recession, politics, power, us by soobrosa
- Feminist friend or foe?
- Friedrich Engels condemned prostitution but enjoyed it himself; called for equality but dismissed female suffrage. Tristram Hunt on a strangely enlightened sexist
- 2009-05-06 to bestof, communist, feminism, politics, sex by bagoly
- Ex-porn star La Cicciolina and the divorce from hell
- She was the porn star who became an MP, now La Cicciolina's 14-year custody battle with one of the world's most successful artists could land her in jail.
- 2009-05-03 to art, bestof, family, law, politics, porn, portrait, society by soobrosa
- Alex Shoumatoff: Bohemian Tragedy
- Members of the ultra-exclusive Bohemian Club—2,500 of America’s richest, most conservative men, including Henry Kissinger, George H. W. Bush, and a passel of Bechtels, Basses, and Rockefellers—are known to urinate freely against the ancient redwoods that
- 2009-04-14 to bestof, conspirancy, environment, media, politics, power by soobrosa
- Michael Pollan Fixes Dinner (Extended Interview)
- Your books have gone from very interior, literally, to large. The audience expands and expands. Has the transition to being the public face of food activism been difficult?
- 2009-03-13 to agriculture, bestof, business, food, politics, society by bagoly
- Chris Baker: Live Free or Drown - Floating Utopias on the Cheap
- Patri Friedman wants to make it easy for anyone to build an independent country: "If we make one seastead, there's room for thousands."
- 2009-02-08 to bestof, country, idealism, politics, technology, utopia by soobrosa
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