‘Pirates,’ Politics and Health-Care Pioneers

The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of Danish Blend coffee, grab a seat by the pool and get ready for our long-form weekend reads:

• The Trouble With Johnny Depp (Rolling Stone)
• How to get away with financial fraud (Guardian)
• A Parlor Game at Rebekah Mercer’s Has No Get Out of Jail Free Card (New Yorker)
• How McKinsey Lost Its Way in South Africa (New York Times)
• How Atul Gawande landed the most extraordinary (or impossible) job in health care (Stat)
• All Ye Need to Know: The impossibility — and the necessity — of distinguishing science from nonscience. (Weekly Standard) see also Bias detectives: the researchers striving to make algorithms fair (Nature)
• The biggest legal crisis facing Uber started with a pile of…

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