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Loving the Monster
Some nights the well runs dry, and I do what everybody does — I sink into the couch and let Netflix babysit me for a while. That's how I ended up wat…
2 months, 1 week ago
The Rise and Ruin of the FLDS Church
He was the mouthpiece of God to ten thousand followers. To the FBI, he was a face on the Ten Most Wanted list. And to a Nevada state trooper working …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Children Sent Through the Mail
In the winter of nineteen fourteen, a five-year-old girl named May Pierstorff stood on a train platform in Grangeville, Idaho, with fifty-three cents…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The Poison Bottles America Trusted
Before the Food and Drug Administration, before warning labels, before anyone had to prove a medicine was safe or even admit what was inside it, Amer…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Nazi Propaganda & The American Mirror
The word propaganda began as something holy. In sixteen twenty-two a committee of cardinals in Rome coined it to mean the spreading of the faith, and…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
The Villisca Axe Murders
On the night of June 9, 1912, in the small railroad town of Villisca, Iowa, someone walked into the home of Josiah and Sarah Moore and killed all eig…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
The Lovelock Giant Legend
In the high desert of Nevada, about twenty miles south of the town of Lovelock, a dry limestone cave holds one of the richest archaeological records …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Clinton, Area 51, and the Search for UFO Secrets
What happens when the most powerful man in the world asks his own government a direct question and still can't get a straight answer? When Bill Clint…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Walt Disney: The Man Behind The Mouse
Walt Disney built the most trusted brand in the world, and he built it on top of a story the company has spent eighty years hoping you would never he…
3 months ago
Did Lyndon B. Johnson Help Kill JFK?
The murder of John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November twenty-second, nineteen sixty-three remains the most contested crime in American history, and at …
3 months ago