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Meeting my husband’s killer
Kathleen Murray
She hijacked a plane and planted a bomb that took Brian's life. But our strange correspondence freed us both
Héroes for sale: Teófilo Stevenson, Yasiel Puig and the plight of the Cuban athlete
Brin-Jonathan Butler
Immigration restrictions may soon be over, but for decades Cuba's stars have faced an impossible choice: Stay or go
“It’s more common to see a blue hedgehog than a person of color as a protagonist”: Inside the whitewashed world of video games
Arthur Chu
Arthur Chu talks to #INeedDiverseGames' creator about why we need to see ourselves reflected in the games we play
My night at the cuddle party
JD Irpino
After seven years without a date, I was desperate to be touched. Desperate enough for weirdness like this
My week in the right-wing lie machine: When Fox News, Twitchy and Montel Williams declared war on me
David Masciotra
When I wrote the troops don't protect my freedoms, the response was ugly, vitriolic and confirmed everything I said
Along with great cocktails, the Patterson House has rules. That’s why I love it
Adam Ross
No cellphones, no name dropping, no fighting. You leave with the person who brought you. What kind of bar is this?
Science says men are idiots
Jenny Kutner
A new study finds men are much more likely to die doing really stupid things
Cheney’s scary pile of garbage: Why his torture defense is even worse than you think
Simon Maloy
The former VP went on Fox News to defend his beloved torture program with smoothly delivered lies and obfuscations
I’m not a sales assistant
Stacey Patton
Seldom am I more acutely conscious of my skin color than when I shop at stores like J.Crew and Ralph Lauren
My Whole Foods nightmare: How a full-time job there left me in poverty
Nick Rahaim
Despite the corporate talk of "team" and "love," here's what working there was really like -- and why I had to quit
When Mark Twain roasted Winston Churchill: Two master wits on the same stage
Thomas Maier
The young Brit was not expecting to be schooled by Twain -- but it was a rare moment when America did not love him
Steubenville hasn’t changed at all: “You trying to write about that whole rape thing?”
Emma Goldberg
It's been two years since the horrific sexual assault. We visited the Ohio town looking for progress. There's none
Our staggering Ebola failure: How America’s obsession with “at-risk” populations totally misses the point
Hali Felt
With Ebola panic finally starting to subside, what have we actually learned? As it turns out: All the wrong lessons
Our Thanksgiving responsibility: Native Americans, honest history and the simple power of remembrance
Billy J. Stratton
It has taken us hundreds of years to come to terms with the damage done. True memorials liberate us from forgetting
An ordinary girl born into a family of witches
Diana Wagman
I wanted to see what my mom and sister did. But as bad spirits descended on our lives, I also longed for normalcy
Jerry Lee Lewis on touring with Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins: “They knew, even then, they were seeing the greatest thing”
Rick Bragg
Cash, Perkins, Jackson -- they were all legends, they were all young, and the early tours were unforgettably cool
No justice in America: Why promises of change were too slow for Mike Brown
Katie McDonough
Like so many others before them, Mike Brown's family was denied not just justice -- but fairness
What I wish I’d asked Bill Cosby: How I learned that entertainment journalists can play hardball too
Erin Keane
Over the years, arts reporters gave Cosby a pass again and again. I know the template -- because I followed it
Thomas Frank on Ronald Reagan’s secret tragedy: How ’70s and ’80s cynicism poisoned Democrats and America
Thomas Frank
Nixon's lies and Reagan's charms created the space for Clinton, Carter and Obama to redefine (and gut) liberalism
Warhol, Mapplethorpe, Lou Reed, Patti Smith and the greatest New York story ever
Philip Gefter
Sam Wagstaff was the patron and lover who connected Mapplethorpe and bohemian New York. Here's how they met
College president: Women lie about rape when sex doesn’t “turn out the way they wanted”
Jenny Kutner
Lincoln University head Robert Jennings is defending remarks that seemed to urge women not to report sexual assault
Why I date married men
Heather L. Hughes
Part of it is the excitement, of course, but is there something deeper that I'm avoiding?
The new atheist commandments: Science, philosophy and principles to replace religion
Lex Bayer, John Figdor
Atheism need not be reactionary -- it can offer constructive rules to live by. Stand back, Moses: Here's our shot
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