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“Are my bags packed?”
Aileen Gallagher
My father was barely sentient in his final days of hospice care, but he understood he was embarking on a journey
“This is not love but abuse”: Why I abandoned Evangelicalism
Christopher Stroop
Much of my youth was marked by episodes of abject terror over whether I was "really saved." Finally I'd had enough
Your relatives really love Donald Trump: Here are the real reasons why
Paula Young Lee
A 6-point explanation for how Donald went from ludicrous billionaire reality TV star to legit candidate
“When a woman is smarter than a man”: My mother’s lessons in beauty and independence
Patricia Park
My Korean mom doesn't know "feminist" from "feminine," but she still taught me about strength
I was a fallible patriot: I served during Iraq, and so wanted to believe and strike first
Jesse Goolsby
I supervised Air Force tankers that bombed Iraq. I feared mushroom clouds over America. I let fear overrule reason
“I won’t see the end of the year”: Backstage at Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead’s final shows
David Browne
The Grateful Dead were exhausted in spring '95, Garcia most of all. Here's the band's story of those last days
“No one knows if New Orleans will live again”: A digital diary of Hurricane Katrina, 10 years later
Cynthia Joyce
When the levees broke, New Orleans stayed in touch digitally. Here are some of their heart-wrenching stories
His racist colleagues were as dangerous as the criminals: Meet New York’s first black police officer
Arthur Browne
His life was threatened repeatedly and fellow officers were of little assistance. Samuel Battle fought on anyway
“Where is the public outcry for an explanation of how the longest war in American history is on a course to end in failure?”
Patrick L. Smith
The brilliant foreign policy theorist Andrew Bacevich tells Salon how American exceptionalism makes matters worse
I am a recovering racist: I was somehow taught hate as a gift of love
Jonathan Odell
I grew up in the segregated South. It took a question from an 11-year-old to teach me how I really felt about it
The boy I used to be: The world would look at me and see Leslie — they don’t know I’m really Peter Pan
Leslie Parry
By the time I was older, Peter was no longer my pretend self, my brash, heroic alter ego; he’d become a part of me
Trump’s circus comes to town: What I saw inside his rambling Baltimore campaign speech
Jim Newell
The entertainer is finally running a certified presidential campaign. We went to check it out
A liberal in the South: I didn’t mean to scream at that woman about abortion rights, but I was not in control
Catherine Landis
I tried to have a civil conversation about abortion with someone who called herself "pro-life." Here's how it went
My father’s medical mystery
N. West Moss
Something was very wrong with Dad, something he couldn't describe because it was something wrong with his own mind
“Inside Out”: Pixar’s sad and sweet new adventure explores the mind of an 11-year-old girl
Andrew O'Hehir
Pixar's latest melancholy parenting saga finds wondrous terrain within a tween girl on the cusp of big changes
It seemed crazy to hire a painter with Tourette’s. Boy, did I get a lesson in “broken” and “normal”
Tamara Ireland Stone
Jesse's perfectly painted lines are a constant reminder of the awe-inspiring power of a mind that works differently
America is feeling the Bern: Bernie Sanders draws overflow crowds — and surges in the polls
Sophia Tesfaye
Once written off as a fringe candidate, the Vermont senator's performance is taking many pundits by surprise
Antonin Scalia is unfit to serve: A justice who rejects science and the law for religion is of unsound mind
Jeffrey Tayler
The justice claims to be an originalist, but his real loyalty is to religion and a phony man in the sky
How Seinfeld became a bad joke: The threat of a hyper-vigilant left-wing outrage machine has been greatly exaggerated
Arthur Chu
A millionaire tells a dumb joke and nobody laughs — and that's proof we're all oppressed by social activists?
William F. Buckley and National Review’s vile race stance: Everything you need to know about conservatives and civil rights
Kevin M. Schultz
Remembering the night William F. Buckley took his genteel racism to Cambridge--and left destroyed by James Baldwin
Bernie Sanders isn’t a “crackpot” — and the progressive agenda isn’t “left-wing”
Bill Moyers, Michael Winship
The Vermont senator's ideas and policies have far more public support than our oligarchs want you to believe
Tolstoy’s granddaughter. Dali’s sleek couch. How Serge Gainsbourg became Serge Gainsbourg
Sylvie Simmons
In 1945, he was a shy French virgin named Lucien mocked by prostitutes. Then he became France's sexiest musician
“I wish we talked about ‘choices’ instead of ‘choice'”: A Texas abortion counselor on how to change the conversation about abortion
Valerie Tarico
Even allies oversimplify by reducing the debate to “abortion on demand, without apology” vs. "safe, legal & rare"
Sexual melodrama on campus: The real story about college assault that David Brooks and Laura Kipnis don’t understand
David Palumbo-Liu
Speech codes aren't the issue. Sexual assault is. The media's attack on campus activism is designed to obscure that
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