Ten years after the Panama Papers, enablers and tax cheats are still being brought to justice - ICIJ A look back at a decade of changes after the Pulitzer-Prize winning investigation sent a shock through the offshore world.

"Ten years in the making."

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"Enduring power of hope and love."

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The Young Avengers Who Fought the U.S. War Machine in Their Underwear With thousands of soldiers dying in Vietnam, a group of friends in New York devised a plan to save lives.

"Not as secure as they think."

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"Tale of upheaval and betrayal."

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"The story of an era defined by opulence."

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No One Ever Said It: On the Long History of “Ye Olde” in English Wander down a small alley off London’s Fleet Street and you’ll find a pub with a crooked, creaky charm. Its black and white sign says “Rebuilt 1667,” the year after the Great Fire gutte…

"Pseudo-archaic."

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"Defined by its survival and reinvention."

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Chávez abuse investigation tapped Wayne State archive A Detroit archive holds records tied to new allegations involving César Chávez.

Go #archives!

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This Is the Holocaust Story I Said I Wouldn’t Write

"Lindenblatt was dying."

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"The secret history of hues."

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Did New Zealand’s Pink and White Terraces Survive? The Search for the Eighth Wonder of the World In 1886, a volcanic eruption buried the Pink and White Terraces in New Zealand. Now, rival scientists, Māori tribes, and a government under pressure are racing to determine whether the terraces surviv...

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"One of history's greatest mysteries."

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"An embittered tyrant."

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"Didn’t just mirror history—they made it."

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"Blackface dominated."

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The Untold Story of Otto Warmbier, American Hostage What happened to U.S. college student Otto Warmbier—who was sent home brain-damaged from North Korea—is more shocking than anyone knew.

"More shocking."

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"Comics and provocateurs."

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Rumors Suggested That Anne Boleyn Was a Witch With Six Fingers. Did This Elizabethan Artist Rework a Portrait of the Tudor Queen to Debunk the Gossip? A new analysis of the Hever Rose portrait suggests that the painter deliberately modified an existing template to showcase Anne's hands—with no extra digits—holding a delicate rose

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She vanished years ago and famously reappeared with amnesia. Inside the mystery of Jody Roberts The story of a missing reporter’s odyssey briefly transfixed the nation. After 20 years, previously unknown details shed light on miscues and oversights that might have changed the outcome.

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The Birth of Dada

"Pandemonium."

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"Not an inevitable consequence."

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The First Futurists and the World They Built - JSTOR Daily From Saint-Simon to Silicon Valley, the urge to forecast the future has always masked a struggle over who gets to define it.

"What is to come."

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"Borrowing from and adapting."

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‘Negatives are photographic truths’: the collector who fled Russia with a haul of second world war images Ukrainian photographer Arthur Bondar has amassed a huge collection of pictures from often unknown photographers

"Only buys negatives."

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My dad made the biggest jewelled egg in the world. The obsession would destroy his marriage, family and fortune The mad venture – which my mother nicknamed ‘your father’s ego’ – would swallow my childhood. Years later I went on a quest to understand what really happened to his glittering folly

"Mad venture."

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This Sixties Musician Died Mysteriously. Was He the Victim of a Serial Killer? O’Jays member Frankie Little Jr.'s death has been a cold case for more than 50 years. Now, a retired journalist believes he may have found the culprit.

"Led to my #divorce."

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Ironclad Men Bulletproof vests during the Civil War were less popular and effective than their manufacturers—and supporters in the press—had envisioned.

"Largely failed to live up to their promises."

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"A twenty-first-century culinary and cultural powerhouse."

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The Ballad of Ollie Jackson | North American Review

"Badman."

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"Female kings: women who risked everything, sometimes unwillingly."

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