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“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
“Game of Thrones” recap: An epic battle previews the horror of winter to come
Libby Hill
Dany and Tyrion debate their futures, but what Jon sees north of the Wall suggests it might all be for nothing
The American’s dilemma: Jane Addams, Barack Obama & the urge to help others
Erik Schneiderhan
In Chicago, both Addams and Obama struggled to balance conflicting demands of individualism & community assistance
“My body was in a net that was being tightened”: Director Rodney Ascher on the frightening phenomenon of sleep paralysis
Joanna Rothkopf
Ascher's new documentary "The Nightmare" follows 8 individuals who have been haunted by midnight spectres
“Every single cop in Cleveland is here”: Arthur Chu’s shocking stories from inside the Tamir Rice/Michael Brelo protests
Arthur Chu
It wasn't my plan to take to the streets. But when the protest found me, there was only one honorable choice
Army of one, soldiers undone: The hope that died in basic training
Kathleen Kilcup
You were a brilliant and courageous woman. How I admired you then. How little either of us understood.
Education reformers have it all wrong: Accountability from above never works, great teaching always does
Jal Mehta
Common Core or No Child Left Behind -- reformers always try to manage change from above. It fails & hurts our kids
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