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This Is How You Train As a Spy in the CIA’s Most Elite Covert Unit

Source meetings at Panera. Dead drops all over DC. How to develop a cover identity. Former spy Amaryllis Fox tells all in this excerpt from her book, Life Undercover.
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What It’s Like to Become the Voice of Your Generation—at Age 12

Naomi Wadler was the breakout star of the 2018 March for Our Lives. She and her family never imagined the spectacular series of events that...
Micaa Thomas shot her way to a college golf scholarship over years of practice at Langston.

The Forgotten History of DC’s First Golf Course for African Americans

You didn't need a police escort to play there. You might see a celeb. Langston's long-timers reflect on the first fairways in Washington where they...

A Murder on the Rappahannock River

A little over 30 years ago, a Northern Neck fisherman named Emerson Stevens went to prison for the brutal slaying of a homecoming queen and...
Opening spread photographs courtesy of Montgomery County Circuit Court and Khafra Family.

A Paranoid Tech Bro, a Homemade Nuclear Bunker, and a Shocking Death

In the tunnels beneath a placid suburban home, an angel investor turned into an angel of doom.
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How to pick, how to get in, how to pay, and what it's really like.
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