City of Sorrow
/In 2009, Ciudad Juarez reported 2,700 homicides. As Charles Bowden’s new book Murder City shows, the bloody drug-war just south of the border shows no signs of abating
Read MoreRevolution in a Half Shell
/During the American Revolution, colonists ran blockades, fought sea-battles and ... sent in an attack-submarine? No, it's not time travel - it's the amazing story of the Turtle.
Read MoreFoxhole Allies
/The Anarchist movement in America was the first to embrace some form of gay rights, but it was more a marriage of convenience than love at first sight.
Read MoreRagged Ishmael
/"Mad Bomber" Sam Melville protested the Vietnam War by blowing up buildings, and he died unrepentant in the Attica riots - but what, if anything, was his legacy?
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