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Introducing a New Pop-Up Blog From NY Mag: The Vindicated

This Music Mogul Gives Voice to the Wrongfully Convicted

Truth, Lies, and Videotape at the Kawasaki Kmart

Latest News from The Vindicated

  • 11/23/2016 at 2:42 p.m.

    Not-So Crazy Rachel Bloom on Creating a Musical-Comedy Unicorn

    By Jada Yuan

    “Getting seven rejections in one day feels like someone taking a dump on your face.”

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  • 11/23/2016 at 1:44 p.m.

    An Ugly Snow Day at Harvard Business School I’ll Never Be Able to Forget

    By Dina Nayeri

    A decade after graduating, a notorious incident with another classmate keeps coming back to haunt me.

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  • 11/23/2016 at 9:51 a.m.

    IBM’s Jeopardy! Stunt Computer Is Curing Cancer Now

    By Caroline Bankoff

    No longer just a party trick, IBM’s data Goliath, Watson, is being used to assist doctors in developing novel new treatments for patients.

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  • 11/23/2016 at 8:32 a.m.

    Wrongfully Imprisoned for Decades, Now the Proud Owners of Brooklyn’s Newest Bar

    By Sam Roudman

    Derrick Hamilton and Shabaka Shakur’s Brownstone is open for business in Dumbo.

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  • 11/22/2016 at 5:32 p.m.

    James Dyson on the 5,126 Vacuums That Didn’t Work and the One That Finally Did

    By Madison Malone-Kircher

    He’s a multi-billionaire now, but back in the ’80s, Sir James Dyson was just a guy with a good idea and a vacuum he couldn’t sell.

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  • 11/22/2016 at 12:49 p.m.

    After a Near-Fatal Accident, the Most Unlikely Comeback in Sports History

    By Katie Van Syckle

    Boxer Vinny Paz could have been paralyzed. Instead, he fought back to win three championships. Now his life has been turned into a movie.

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  • 11/22/2016 at 8:48 a.m.

    Sorry, Todd Solondz, I Was Wrong About Happiness

    By Matt Zoller Seitz

    A critic’s awkward in-person mea culpa, and a filmmaker vindicated.

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  • 11/21/2016 at 5:38 p.m.

    This Crazy Artist Predicted Everything from Uber to Google Glass Back in 1991

    By Thomas MacMillan

    Before smartphones and ride-sharing apps, there was cartoon futurist Steven M. Johnson. He saw it all coming — and he’s awesome.

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  • 11/21/2016 at 3:44 p.m.

    How a Music Mogul Became a Powerful Voice for the Wrongfully Convicted

    By Aaron Gell

    Jason Flom is the legendary A&R man behind acts like Katy Perry and Kid Rock. So what’s he doing in the studio with Amanda Knox?

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  • 11/21/2016 at 9:46 a.m.

    How Astronomer Cecilia Payne Proved Her ‘Impossible’ Theory About the Stars

    By Dava Sobel

    A pioneering female astronomer at Harvard in the 1920s solved a fundamental mystery of the universe.

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  • 11/21/2016 at 9:36 a.m.

    Standing Up to Strangers

    By Nate Dern

    If you’re not sure who the a**hole is, it’s probably you.

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  • 11/21/2016 at 8:22 a.m.

    Has Hypnosis Finally Been Vindicated by Neuroscience?

    By Melissa Dahl

    It may be all in your mind, but brain scans suggest the effects are real.

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  • 11/18/2016 at 5:10 p.m.

    How Chris Gethard Found Comedy Redemption in a Dumpster

    By Jesse David Fox

    It was the culmination of everything the comic has been working toward, a show that asked just one question: Can you guess what’s in the Dumpster?

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  • 11/18/2016 at 9:54 a.m.

    Truth, Lies, and Videotape at the Kawasaki Kmart

    By Kelly Luce

    Jailed in Japan for a crime she didn’t commit, a young American teacher learns the meaning of the phrase sho ga nai — “It can’t be helped.”

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  • 11/18/2016 at 9:09 a.m.

    14 Famous People on the Biggest Risks of Their Careers — and How They Paid Off

    By Caroline Bankoff

    Judd Apatow, Aaron Eckhart, Andie MacDowell, David Hyde Pierce, and more on creative and professional vindication.

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  • 11/17/2016 at 4:22 p.m.

    Snapchat Founders Prove that Turning Down $3 Billion Wasn’t So Dumb After All

    By Caroline Bankoff

    Three years after walking away from Facebook’s offer — and what looked like the chance of a lifetime —the founders are poised to do 10 times better.

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  • 11/17/2016 at 1:54 p.m.

    The Knicks’ Kristaps Porzingis Makes a Statement Two Weeks After Getting Benched

    By Adam K. Raymond

    The Knicks’ unicorn proves he’s a superstar in the making.

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  • 11/17/2016 at 12:50 p.m.

    Your Middle School Teacher Was Wrong About Wikipedia

    By Madison Malone-Kircher

    The infamous open-sourced internet encyclopedia has become an invaluable source of information, no matter what the haters tell you.

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  • 11/16/2016 at 6:14 p.m.

    The 10 Best Sports Vindication Stories of 2016

    By Dan Reilly

    How LeBron, Peyton, Phelps, and more proved the naysayers wrong

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  • 11/16/2016 at 4:48 p.m.

    How A Charlie Brown Christmas Almost Wasn’t

    By Jennings Brown

    Producer Lee Mendelson on the making of a TV special no one believed in — and why we might need the holiday classic now more than ever.

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  • 11/16/2016 at 1:45 p.m. whistleblowers

    Sherry Hunt Took On One of the World’s Biggest Banks and Won

    By Charley Lanyon

    Citi thought they could push her around, so she gave the Justice Department an open-and-shut case and walked away with $30 million.

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  • 11/16/2016 at 8:32 a.m.

    The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Cure

    By Steven Poole

    Depressed? Try dropping some acid. After a 50-year research hiatus, new clinical studies are pointing the way toward LSD’s redemption.

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  • 11/15/2016 at 2:20 p.m.

    A Mad Doctor and a 19th-Century Medical Mystery We’re Still Learning From Today

    By Steven Poole

    After making one of the most significant discoveries in modern medicine, Ignaz Semmelweis was beaten to death in an insane asylum

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  • 11/14/2016 at 5:00 p.m. hollywood

    Academy Throws Golden Bone to World’s Second Highest-Paid Actor, Jackie Chan

    By Charley Lanyon

    After starring in more than 200 films, the kung fu comedian finally has his very own Oscar.

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  • 11/14/2016 at 11:14 a.m.

    Why Do You Keep Making Kanye Remind You He Was Right?

    By Ilana Kaplan

    The most vindicated man in rap is never wrong. And he’s said he’s running for president in 2020.

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  • 11/11/2016 at 5:50 p.m.

    How Leeches Made Their Comeback

    By Steven Poole

    Thanks to an intrepid doctor in Boston, the leech has regained its stature as a legitimate “medical device.”

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  • 11/11/2016 at 4:06 p.m.

    Art Spiegelman’s Quest to Vindicate a Long-Forgotten Genius

    By Katie Van Syckle and Abraham Riesman

    Just days before his death, at age 97, artist Si Lewen finally got the recognition he deserved.

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  • 11/11/2016 at 8:21 a.m.

    InfoWars’ Alex Jones, King of All Trolls, Relishes His Moment

    By Jennings Brown

    “My life’s purpose has been completed,” said a misty-eyed Jones. “I will continue on. But for now, I realize, I have won.”

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  • 11/10/2016 at 5:29 p.m.

    These Academics Foresaw That Working-Class Resentment Would Lead to Trump

    By Sam Roudman

    As far back as 1994, all the signs were there.

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  • 11/10/2016 at 2:27 p.m. trump

    Read Nixon’s 1987 Letter to Future Candidate Trump Predicting His Win

    By Charley Lanyon

    Tricky Dick’s encouragement may have planted the seeds for Trump’s run.

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  • 11/9/2016 at 5:31 p.m.

    Pot Smokers Owe Last Night’s Historic Ballot Wins to This Man

    By Jennings Brown

    After five decades in the trenches, America’s longest-serving marijuana activist Keith Stroup takes a bow.

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  • 11/9/2016 at 4:30 p.m.

    True Believers Take a Victory Lap After Calling Trump’s Win

    By Adam K. Raymond

    Those who stuck by Trump despite the lagging indicators are basking in the orange glow of his upset today.

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  • 11/9/2016 at 3:30 p.m. celebrity edition

    Scott Baio Would Like You to Start Taking Him Seriously Now Please

    By Charley Lanyon

    Chachi is now a bona fide “influencer.” Close your eyes and think of England.

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  • 11/9/2016 at 12:56 p.m.

    Why Did the Polling Experts — Except Maybe Nate Silver — Miss a Trump Victory?

    By Ed Kilgore

    The real problem is that many observers mentally put a thumb on the scale for Clinton.

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  • 11/8/2016 at 5:35 p.m.

    This Forgotten Visionary Gave Us Modern Computing and Got Nothing in Return

    By Adam K. Raymond

    Before Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, there was Douglas Engelbart and “The Mother of All Demos.”

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  • 11/8/2016 at 2:15 p.m.

    3 Presidential Nominees Who Gambled Like Trump and Won

    By Ed Kilgore

    JFK confronted religious fears; Carter changed the map; Reagan softened an extremist image and made the election about his opponent.

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  • 11/8/2016 at 1:04 p.m.

    Win or Lose, Trump Has Proven Idiocracy Painfully Prescient

    By Adam K. Raymond

    That new Trump-WWF meme reinforces what we already knew: The Donald is President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.

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  • 11/7/2016 at 7:53 p.m. the vindicated

    Nothing to See Here: 6 Clinton Investigations That Came Up Empty

    By Charley Lanyon

    Hillary Clinton is no stranger to federal probes that never quite find anything.

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  • 11/7/2016 at 5:23 p.m.

    These 10 People Are Guaranteeing a Yuge Trump Win Tomorrow

    By Adam K. Raymond

    Will those predicting a Trump landslide be proven right? We’ll know in 24 hours.

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  • 11/7/2016 at 2:32 p.m.

    How Jack Bogle’s Long-Game Investment Strategy Beat Wall Street Every Time

    By Bill Saporito

    The founder of Vanguard has been right all along about index funds. At 87, he’s finally feeling vindicated.

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  • 11/4/2016 at 5:52 p.m.

    Grace Hopper: The Most Important Female Computer Pioneer You’ve Never Heard Of

    By Steven Poole

    Meet the unsung genius whose ideas were partially responsible for the device you’re reading this on.

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  • 11/3/2016 at 4:14 p.m.

    These Overzealous Cubs Fans Don’t Look So Dumb Now

    By Adam K. Raymond

    The guy who got a “Curse Broken 2016 World Series Champions” Cubs tattoo back in September? Totally vindicated.

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  • 11/3/2016 at 1:00 p.m.

    Cubs Mastermind Theo Epstein Doesn’t Just Break Curses, He Builds Dynasties

    By Adam K. Raymond

    The man who delivered a World Series to the Red Sox, has brought one to the Cubs.

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  • 11/2/2016 at 6:18 p.m.

    Billy Mitchell Was America’s Least Appreciated Military Visionary

    By Charley Lanyon

    As early as 1906, he saw before anyone else that wars would be won in the sky, and it cost him is career.

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  • 11/2/2016 at 2:38 p.m.

    Turns Out Grandma Was Actually Right About These Weird Pregnancy Superstitions

    By Cari Romm

    Recent scientific studies have confirmed that some of the most outlandish old wives’ tales about babies might have merit after all.

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  • 11/2/2016 at 11:45 a.m.

    Roomba’s Long, Bumpy Path From Prototype to Your Living Room

    By Kenneth R. Rosen

    It’s fair to say the project hit some walls. Inventor Joe Jones walked us through the ten-year odyssey of getting his adorable robot vacuum to market.

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  • 11/1/2016 at 4:40 p.m.

    These 6 Visionaries Predicted the Smartphone

    By Adam K. Raymond

    Wireless prophets from Tesla to Asimov, plus the guy who created Quantum Leap.

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  • 11/1/2016 at 2:15 p.m.

    Pat Buchanan is ‘Delighted to Be Proven Right’ by 2016 Election

    By Sam Roudman

    From immigration to NAFTA, he’s been beating the drum of right-wing populism for the last 25 years. Now he’s ready to gloat.

    Read More »
  • 10/31/2016 at 7:07 p.m.

    AIDS’ Patient Zero Is Finally Innocent, But We’re Still Learning Who He Was

    By Tim Murphy

    The complicated legacy of Gaëtan Dugas, long vilified as the man responsible for the U.S. AIDS epidemic., now exonerated by science.

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  • 10/31/2016 at 2:54 p.m.

    Clippy Didn’t Just Annoy You — He Changed the World

    By Brian Feldman

    What we owe Clippy, Microsoft’s greatest shame.

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