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The Man Who Stepped Into the Storm
In 1971 a man hijacked a Boeing 727, took $200,000 and vanished into the night sky. The physical evidence survives; his identity and fate do…
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Nine Days
A CIA scientist was secretly dosed with LSD. Nine days later he fell from a New York hotel window. The dosing is documented; the manner…
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If America Stands Back
Sky's drama-documentary The Wargame imagines a Russian attack on Britain met by American hesitation. The scenario is fiction. The gap it exposes — between what…
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Congress funded the largest immigration-enforcement expansion in history. The mechanism that hands local officers federal immigration authority has grown twenty-fold in two years — and…
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