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The Most Surprising Piece of Cultural Criticism of the Year
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The Best Sentence I Read This Year
Postscript: 'The Poorest Rich Kids in the World'
Sabrina Rubin Erdely
Sabrina Rubin Erdely (@sabrinarerdely) is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone. I often deal with interview subjects who tell variations of the truth. People don’t usually out-and-out lie · although that happens from time to time. But memo · 官方页
My Favorite Stories About Taxes (and Twist-Ties)
3. “Man Making Ireland Tax Avoidance Hub Proves Local Hero”
Jesse Drucker · Bloomberg, 2013 · 官方页
Finally, Bloomberg’s Jesse Drucker profiles Feargal O’Rourke, the man who helped transform Ireland into a “hub for tax avoidance” for multinationals like Apple and Facebook. Drucker withholds judgment (this is Bloomberg, headline and all) but O’Rourke’s mercenary wiles shine through a few well-chosen anecdotes. Choice quote, on Breaking Bad: “I don’t know what it says that we can be rooting for a guy on the dark side of the law.”
2. “A Tale of Two Londons”
In Vanity Fair, longtime tax writer Nicholas Shaxson shows how the City of London became a hub for tax-free global capital through the story of One Hyde Park, the world’s most expensive residential building, its fabulously wealthy and faceless owners, and the offshore accounts they used to buy and register the properties anonymously.
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22 Outstanding Book Chapters We Featured This Year
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Award for Outstanding Reporting
Illustration by Jason Mecier
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Best Life Lessons from Lindsay Lohan in a Feature Story
Here Is What Happens When You Cast Lindsay Lohan in Your Movie
Jason Fagone (@jfagone) is the author of Ingenious, a book about modern-day inventors; his stories this year appeared in Wired, Philadelphia, Grantland, Men’s Journal, and NewYorker.com. · 官方页
Stephen Rodrick | The New York Times Magazine | January 2013 | 31 minutes (7,752 words)
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Postscript: Monica Potts on the Homeless Families of 'The Weeklies'
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The Best Story About Storytelling
Boycotts, Death Threats and a Rolling Stone Cover Story
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Favorite New Writer Discovery
The 10 Stories We Couldn't Stop Thinking About
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My Favorite Stories About Taxes (and Twist-Ties)
1. “Marty Sullivan figured out how the world’s biggest companies avoided billions in taxes. Here’s how he wants to stop them”
Steven Pearlstein · Washington Post, 2013 · 官方页
In his affectionate profile of tax expert Marty Sullivan, Steven Pearlstein breaks down everything that’s wrong about the US tax code in Sullivan’s nonpartisan, almost technocratic view—and goes on to explain why politics make it so hard to alter, let alone fix, the system. Not exactly action-movie material, but it’s handled so deftly that I couldn’t put it down.
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