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Some of the others were supporters of the public interest, monitoring the privacy rights and pocketbooks of citizens.
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
war is the pure and ultimate realm of dumb quantity.
Ben Fountain • Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
“tough and competent.”
Jeffrey Kluger • Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon
“Putting it crudely, we really went to town,” Beightler reported. “To me, the loss of a single American life to save a building was unthinkable.” That’s a sentence worth reading twice. In Beightler’s mind, he was facing a trade-off—and not a particularly difficult one—between lives and architecture. But, as he well knew, those buildings were inhabi
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where few tacticians could translate their experiences at the company
Hunter Ripley Rawlings • Red Metal
“The only thing that mattered was that I did my best to make sure everyone else came back alive.”
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
Most important, the commandos had found a way to get under the terrorists’ skin. The insurgents were no longer the deadliest, most unpredictable force in Iraq. Now it was their turn to be afraid, and exposed. The truth, as Joseph and his comrades discovered, was that the Islamic State’s fighters were skilled butchers, but lousy soldiers. “They’re o
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