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My juvenile confinement horror: What it’s like inside Chicago’s infamous jail for kids
Mark Dostert
I wanted to mentor some of the toughest teens in Chicago. So I joined them in a frightening lockup they called home
A foursome opened up our relationship
Yoonj Kim
It started as just another fantasy. But trusting my boyfriend like this changed everything
Richard Nixon’s favorite liberal: Secrets of the strangest political marriage
Stephen Hess
Nixon needed to reach across the aisle. Moynihan needed to reclaim a voice. Their partnership made history
Chain restaurants are killing us: Billionaire bankers, minimum-wage toilers and the nasty truth about fast-food nation
Thomas Frank
This is what we eat, this is where we work, this is what we do to our land: It's nasty and must be rethought
The man I married twice
Sjanna Leighton
Our first marriage ended in disaster. But life's disappointments also brought something else -- a second chance
Over-testing our kids is not the answer — it’s the problem
Anya Kamenetz
In the era of No Child Left Behind and Common Core, we've forgotten about the learning and development that matter
Why activists and feminists get so many death threats
Valerie Tarico
Activists of all stripes reflect on the dangers of standing up for controversial ideas in the age of social media
The end of my snooping
Jessica Ciencin Henriquez
How I stopped digging into emails, cellphones, notebooks, journals, photos albums -- and learned to trust my gut
The day I left my son in the car
Kim Brooks
I made a split-second decision to run into the store. I had no idea it would consume the next years of my life
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
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