Eric Spitznagel
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Breaking down America's teenage mental health crisis: 'It's almost like a trend'
Nora, 16, is a fairly typical teenager. A high-school student from Southern California, she lives on Snapchat, has a mouth full of braces, sings in the sch❀ool choir and a...
How Antwerp became the drugꦗ den of Europe
When you read a headline like “Four Sh꧅ootings in Three Days,” it wouldn’t be unfair to think it’s been another violent week in Chicago or possibly Juarez, Mexico. But the...
How Elon Musk quickly destroyed the Twitter that Jack Dorsey🃏 built
A series of news books💧 chronicle Elon Musk's disastrous take-over of Twitter.
How comic Volodymyr Zelensky became Ukraine's 'Man of the People'
A new book chronicles🧸 the Volodymyr Zelenksy's rise from comic to president of Ukraine during wartime.
How an Amish man got away with murder again and again: Book explℱores ✤how culture of secrecy shielded killer
"This is about a con🦂spiracy to cover up a crime and let a serial killer go free," says sleuth Gregg Olsen.
How one woman t🎉racked the researchers who tracked her for decades
Breslin had long been aware she was a “hum🅰an lab rat,”🌺 in her words, but it wasn’t until adulthood that she started to wonder what it was all about.
Life on Mars? New book explores pitfalls of colonizing the cosmos: 'Space is terrible'
The authors of a new book say "space 𝐆is terrible" and that living in the cosmos would mean disgusting food, awkward sex and anarchy.
YouTube's moderation policies make no sense
YouTube keeps on demoneti𝔉zing users for with no rhyme or reason – and they're beginning to get angry.
How Meta go🐲t busted for harming teenage girls, boosting cartels and more misdeeds
On a December afternoon in 2020, Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz drove to Redwood Regional Park, just east of🔯 Oakland, Calif., for a mysterious meeting. For months, he’d been...
Vietnam broadcast helped homesick troops — and inspire💮d Robin Williams
"Imagine the troops gro𝔍aning when they were greeted witᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚh 'Goooood morning, Vietnam,'" says the author of a new book.
Why Latin American prisons are the most insane in ♍the world
On Sept. 20, when 11,000 soldiers and police officers stormed the notorious Tocoron prison in northern Venezuela— on orders from Presiden♍t Nicolas Maduro to free the penitentiary from control of...
How 'The Sopranos' defied the odds — and the rules of TV — to become a hit
“It just violated𝔉 too many do’s and don’ts, even for pay cable,” writes Peter Biskind in his new book, “Pandora's Box: How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV."
FBI agent who inspired Clarice Starling reveals what it's like working with serial killers
Forme๊r FBI agent Jana Monroe helped Jodie Foster for "The Silence of the Lambs" -- and writes about 🍸it in her new memoir ""Hearts of Darkness."
🌳 Why CAR-T cell therapy is the cancer killer the world needs now
The ris🐓ing cancer treatment and technology known as CAR-T uses a patient's own blood cells to cure their malignancies.
From botched butt 🐲lifts to unhealthy overeating: The dark side of the influencer economy
People are 💯going to extreme lengths in the hope𒉰 of gaining large social media followings.
Schizophrenic Yale Law grad's story was going to be a movie starring Brad Pitt — until he murdered his pregnant fiancée
A glowing New York Times profile made Michael Laudor the face of his illness. Brad Pitt was going to play him. But in 1998, he killed Caroline Costello. A newꦍ...
Schoolgirl called both North Korea, African dictators 'Dad'
In her new book, "Black Girl from Pyongyang," Monica Macias writes ab🌠out growing up in North Korea under the care of leader Kim Il Sung after being sent away by...
𒐪 How mRNA vaccines could target everything from cancer to the plague
🍸Imagine visiting your doctor for a routine checkup, and on top of the usual shots — the annual flu or COVID ꦯvaccine—your doctor asks if you’d like to be vaccinated...
How J.Crew catalogs became most exciting thing in ’80s f♔ash𒉰ion
During the ’80s and early ’90sꦡ, J.Crew was more than just a clothing mail-order business.
New book 'Status Revolution' reveals how rescue dogs went from lowly mutts to status symbols
Although the term “rescue dog” had been around for decades, it came into vogue during the '90s, with “no-kill” ൩shelters popping up across the country.