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By Andrew Freedman, Michael Lemonick, and Dan Yawitz From unprecedented heat waves that shattered "Dust Bowl" era records from the 1930s, to Hurricane Sandy, which devastated coastal New Jersey and New York, 2012 was the year Mother Nature had it out...

Each year, I keep a running list of exceptional nonfiction that I encounter as I publish The Best of Journalism, an email newsletter that I curate weekly for its subscribers. This is my annual attempt to bring some of those stories to a wider audience...

Essay: Anatomy of the Deep State by Mike Lofgren BillMoyers.com Rome lived upon its principal till ruin stared it in the face. Industry is the only true source of wealth, and there was no industry in Rome. By day the Ostia road was crowded with carts...

1. If you’re a writer, you need to go where the stories are, and Pittsburgh is a story. My mother attended the University of Pittsburgh during the late 1960s when the steel mills were in full swing, and the air quality was so poor that students had...

(Washington’s Blog) You Break the Law Every Day … Without Even Knowing It Wired notes: James Duane, a professor at Regent Law School and former defense attorney, notes in his excellent lecture on why it is never a good idea to talk to...