Start-Up! Murder and Millennial Madness at a Gen X Computer Company
“Start me up.” – The Rolling Stones, 1981 It all began as an innocent attempt to while away a stormy night during midterms. According to a former classmate who, like most of the sources for this piece,...
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The following piece was commissioned for Gear magazine—which went out of business while I was in Tajikistan doing the work. It did appear in Drill magazine, which also went under, but not before...
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Originally published in Men’s Journal magazine in 2008: High in the remotest mountains of the remotest province of the remotest nation in central Asia, a breathtaking lake is poised to unleash an...
View ArticleThe Karakoram Highway (1999 Essay)
A slightly longer version of this piece originally appeared in P.O.V. magazine in 1999: THE KARAKORAM HIGHWAY: The World’s Most Dangerous Roadway by Ted Rall On your standard map it’s a thousand miles...
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