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The Cult Deprogrammer Who Needed Deprogramming
For 20 years Rick Ross was in a ‘cult’ of his own. “I’ll tell you what kind of person joins a cult,” he says. “Every kind.”
 • Sanjiv Bhattacharya
Alex Honnold Doesn't Have A Death Wish
I once had the honor of spending a day in Yosemite with the world's greatest free climber. “It’ll be super mellow,” he said. Nope.
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Thanksgiving With Pimp Chicago
We wanted to get into the Players Ball. He told us he could help.
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The MAGA-Epstein Meltdown
What happens when a cult confronts cognitive dissonance.
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Slab City 3: The Hippie vs The Gangster.
When capitalism came to the Last Free Place it sparked a spat that became a battle for the city's soul.
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Slab City 2: "We're All Here Because We Ain't All There."
An outlaw biker, a fugitive mother of three, a cancer survivor and a bearded lady. Profiles from the Last Free Place In America.
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Slab City 1: Ask The Dust
The Slabs are America's conscience, a living critique of a dream in decline. And, if we're not careful, a foreshadowing.
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The Fullerton Furry Murders
Eight years ago I began investigating a triple homicide in Orange County. Now I can finally tell the story.
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The Metamorphosis Of A Marathon Monk
Yusai Sakai went from a life of failure to becoming a “Living Buddha” by completing the most grueling feat of endurance ever devised. Twice.
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The Zizian Cult Murders and the Edge of Reason.
How the existential threat of AI is driving people to madness.
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The Radicalization of Eric Atwood, The Neo-Nazi Tarot Reader.
In 2016, I met a white nationalist who had come to his ideology via Buddhism and New Age spirituality. He said he was launching an alt-right fraternity…
 • Sanjiv Bhattacharya
My City Is Burning
The dream home, the fabled ‘house in the hills’, was always the most likely to burn. In LA, beauty and danger are sides of a coin.
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Minority Report
Minority Report
Subcultures, outliers, the view from the fringe. A mix of reporting, essay and memoir.
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