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When Australian journalist David Hirst died in 2013, he was roundly celebrated, in this newspaper and others, as one of the few mainstream commentators to have predicted and warned against the 2008 financial crisis. His Fairfax column Planet Wall Street
DIRECTED BY Evan Mather PRODUCED BY Will Campbell, the American Society of Landscape Architects CAMERA BY Matthew Clayfield, John DeFraites, Evan Mather, Martin Stark SOUND BY Matthew Clayfield, Evan Mather ORIGINAL MUSIC SCORE BY Juuso Auvinen REMIXES BY Victor Bortas
We depart Kiptopeke State Park, on the eastern bank of Chesapeake Bay, a little after dawn, the sun a burning penny behind us. The Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel sends us below and above the waterline intermittently, our hired car descending into
Rick Perry has a knack for making comments that cause large swathes of the electorate to wince. But it takes real talent to make comments that cause large swathes of another country’s to wince, too. That’s precisely what the Texas
I am writing this postcard, my first dispatch as a freelance travel writer, from a bar in San Francisco. Arguably, this is the greatest workplace in the world for an alcoholic typist like myself: the gin is cold, the pianist’s
Twelve. That was the number of years it had been since my last attempt at long-haul travel. It was also the number of hours I’d just spent in the air. It wasn’t quite the number of drinks I’d Diabetes is one