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The PCC’s founders were influenced by the Mini-Manual of Urban Guerrillas written by Carlos Marighella, the Marxist-Leninist who founded the National Action for Liberation guerrilla group in the late 1960s. During the 1990s and early 2000s the PCC started to dominate drugs distribution and sank deep roots in prisons and poor communities. Members we
... See moreRichard Lapper • Beef, Bible and bullets: Brazil in the age of Bolsonaro
For artists hailing mostly from poor and working-class backgrounds, the perennial, high-paying patronage promised by Americans was no less than the proverbial pot of gold.
Harvey R. Neptune • Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation
A short-lived capital stock will manifest in accelerated depreciation and a fragile capital structure will incur an undue interest charge.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism

Within a few years as U.S. Attorney, Giuliani was probably the nation’s best-known crime-fighter since J. Edgar Hoover. That was due both to how many important convictions he secured and to his genius for promoting them. Though Giuliani expanded the U.S. Attorney’s office to 132 assistants, he presented himself as the iconic figurehead of that offi
... See moreWilliam Poundstone • Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
How to Get Away With Murder in America: Drug Lords, Dirty Pols, Obsessed Cops, and the Quiet Man Who Became the CIA’s Master Killer
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Like most incarcerated humans, Gacy loved mail; unlike most incarcerated humans, Gacy was picky about his friends. When anyone wrote to him, he returned a typed, two-page survey that asked fifty-two questions about artistic affinities, political ideologies, and personal values. Nuzum still has that form.