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Eric Spitznagel

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Sep 7, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 7, 2026 · Eric Spitznagel

    Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’: The surprising truth behind the iconic song (opens the original)

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    See more of our coverage in your search results. Before Freddie Mercury put a gun against a man’s head and pulled the trigger, he considered sending him off to war. An early draft of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” the 1975 hit that would define the band, included the verse, “Mama, there’s a war began / I’ve got to leave tonight,” according to “A Life in Lyrics: The Official Creative Legacy of Freddie Mercury,” (Dey Street Books, out now), by Mercury and Mary Austin, the singer’s former fiancée. Pu

  2. Article · Aug 23, 2026 · Eric Spitznagel

    Why can’t we just kill all the ticks? (opens the original)

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    See more of our coverage in your search results. The ticks got an early start this year, and they’ve been busy. In April, 105 of every 100,000 emergency-room visits nationwide involved a tick bite, up 52% from the year before. In May, that number reached 112. The CDC has been tracking these visits since 2017, and this spring brought the highest early-season numbers it’s ever recorded. New York has averaged more than 17,500 new Lyme disease cases annually over the past three years. New York City

  3. Article · Aug 18, 2026 · Eric Spitznagel

    More than 90,000 governments are stealing your time with absurd forms and rules — even Estonia works better (opens the original)

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    See more of our coverage in your search results. In 2001, writer Jeff Miller walked into a Massachusetts DMV to transfer his driver’s license and walked out as a convicted felon. Miller had never been arrested. But as journalist Annie Lowrey explains in her new book, “The Time Tax: How the Government Wastes Our Time — and How to Fix It” (Ecco, out Aug. 25), another Jeff Miller had been born on the same day, in the same state, and later committed crimes “in the penumbra of attempted murder.” To p

  4. Article · Aug 15, 2026 · Eric Spitznagel

    Meet the godfather of global terrorism — Carlos the Jackal — who seduced women and eluded cops for decades (opens the original)

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    See more of our coverage in your search results. It was the Sunday before Christmas, 1975, and Vienna was covered by a foot of snow. Just before 11:30 a.m., six strangers stepped off a red tram outside the headquarters of OPEC, the world’s most powerful oil cartel, “their long coats and heavy bags casting dark shadows against the snow,” writes Joby Warrick in his new book, “The Jackal: The Rise and Fall of Carlos, the World’s First Super-Terrorist” (Scribner, Aug. 18). A trio of reporters stakin

  5. Article · Jul 19, 2026 · Eric Spitznagel

    This career criminal traded false confessions for freedom — and sent innocent men to death row (opens the original)

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    See more of our coverage in your search results. Paul Skalnik had a strange gift for being in jail when accused murderers suddenly felt the urge to spill their secrets. Skalnik was a petty con artist with a grimly reliable routine, writes Pamela Colloff in her riveting new book, “Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast.” “Whenever his luck ran out and he ended up in jail,” Colloff writes, “men confessed their crimes to him.” In the summer of 1981, Skal

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