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A Most American Terrorist: The Making of Dylann Roof

I decided that if he would not tell us his story, then I would.

https://www.gq.com/story/dylann-roof-making-of-an-american-terrorist/

The previous topics story was behind a paywall, which wasnt there when I first read the article a year ago I think. So Ive removed that one.

Previous Articles:

The Prisoner

Late one night in 1991, a twelve-year-old boy pulled out a gun and killed a cab driver on the East Side of San Antonio. Twenty-five years later, Edwin Debrow remains in prison for that murder, with fifteen more years left on his sentence. Is that justice? And is there room for mercy?

https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-prisoner/

Japans Lost Generation is Still Jobless and Living With Their Parents

Shut out of the employment market in their 20s, they continue to search for direction in middle age.

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-japan-lost-generation/

Tuesdays with Saddam

Specialist Sean OShea guarded the most high-profile prisoner in U.S. history.

https://www.gq.com/story/sean-o-shea-prisoner-guarded?printable=true

Do You Hear the People Sing?

Brutality and resistance on the front lines of Hong Kongs battle for democracy.

https://magazine.atavist.com/do-you-hear-the-people-sing-hong-kong-democracy-protests-china

A Family Matter

Each year, Californias child protective services agencies remove thousands of kids from their homes. The story of how some parents decided to fight back.

https://magazine.atavist.com/a-family-matter

Double Blind

The untold story of how British intelligence infiltrated and undermined the IRA.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/04/double-blind/304710/

The Impossible Refugee Boat Lift to Christmas Island

Along for the ride with a boatload of refugees risking their lives.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/17/magazine/the-impossible-refugee-boat-lift-to-christmas-island.html

Lost in the Meritocracy

How I traded an education for a ticket to the ruling class.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2005/01/lost-in-the-meritocracy/303672/

The Adults in the Room

On leaving Deadspin and digital media in 2019.

https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-adults-in-the-room-1837487584

The Innocent Man

On August 13, 1986, Michael Morton came home from work to discover that his wife had been brutally murdered in their bed. His nightmare had only begun.

Part 1:

https://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/the-innocent-man-part-one/

Part 2:

https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-innocent-man-part-two/

A Thousand Pounds of Dynamite

In August, 1980, an enigmatic box covered in a bewildering array of switches appeared in an upstairs office of Harvey's Wagon Wheel Casino, near Lake Tahoe.

https://magazine.atavist.com/a-thousand-pounds-of-dynamite

The Day Treva Thorneberry Disappeared

In the mid-eighties the cheerful high school student vanished. After more than a decade had passed, her friends and family in her tiny North Texas hometown of Electra had no idea where she wasor if she was dead or alive. They certainly didnt know that almost two thousand miles away her fate was kept secret by a teenage girl named Brianna Stewart.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-day-treva-throneberry-disappeared/

Dear Leader Dreams of Sushi

North Korea is a mythically strange land, an Absurdistan, where almost nothing is known about the people or, more important, their missile-launching leaders. There is, however, one man, a humble sushi chef from Japan, who infiltrated the inner sanctum, becoming the Dear Leader's cook, confidant, and court jester. What is life like serving Kim Jong-il and his heir? A strange and dangerous gig where the food and drink never stop, the girls are all virgins, and you're never really safe. We sent Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Adam Johnson to meet the man who survived all the craziness.

https://www.gq.com/story/kim-jong-il-sushi-chef-kenji-fujimoto-adam-johnson

A Theory of Relativity (Japans Rent-a-Family Industry)

People who are short on relatives can hire a husband, a mother, a grandson. The resulting relationships can be more real than youd expect.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/30/japans-rent-a-family-industry

The Strange and Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit

For nearly thirty years, a phantom haunted the woods of Central Maine. Unseen and unknown, he lived in secret, creeping into homes in the dead of night and surviving on what he could steal. To the spooked locals, he became a legendor maybe a myth. They wondered how he could possibly be real. Until one day last year, the hermit came out of the forest.

https://www.gq.com/story/the-last-true-hermit

The Last Ride of Cowboy Bob

He wore a Western hat, never spoke a word, and robbed bank after bank. When the feds finally arrested him, they discovered that their suspect was actually a soft-spoken woman. They thought theyd never hear from her again but she had other plans.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-last-ride-of-cowboy-bob/

A Home at the End of Google Earth

Separated from his older brother at a train station, five-year-old Saroo Munshi Khan found himself lost in the slums of Calcutta. Nearly 20 years later, living in Australia, he began a painstaking search for his birth home, using ingenuity, hazy memories, and Google Earth.

https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2012/11/a-home-at-the-end-of-google-earth

racist incel with a stupid bowlcut lives out his /pol/ fantasy and the cops bought him burger king, now serving life in prison with bubba and tyrone

there, that's all the breath we need to waste on him

Bump.

CalypsoDoom posted...

Posting for later. I thought the Tuesdays with Saddam article was very interesting

Weirdly the detail from that article I remember the most is him using watermelons as currency haha.