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A journalist tells the true crime story of a Chicago doctor currently serving four life sentences in prison for feeding the opioid epidemic.

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Paul Volkman is serving four life sentences, one of the longest sentences given to a doctor during the opiate epidemic. But what drove this once promising student to such extremes?

Providence-based freelance journalist, Philip Eil (who has written for this magazine), spent years looking into his father’s old classmate from college

Philip Eil is a freelance journalist based in Rhode Island. He is working on a true-crime book about prescription drug dealing for Steerforth Press.

President Biden’s first month with the press In late January, at the end of her first full week as President Biden’s press secretary, Jen Psaki went on the radio and bashed the reporters who cover the White House. “In Dana Perino’s book, she talks about having her middle finger up in the podium underneath when they’re really getting under her skin, so I’m holding that out as an option,” she said, referring to her Bush-era predecessor who is now a Fox News star. “When reporters a...