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How Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan saved country music
Michael Streissguth
Waylon, Willie and Kris were country music renegades -- but music royalty helped pave the way for their rebellion
Nelson Mandela in “serious but stable” condition at hospital
Christopher Torchia
The former South African president is currently being treated for a lung infection
Postmortem portraiture: Creepy or sweet?
Allison Meier
While photographing dead relatives might sound morbid, some see it as a way to memorialize their loved ones
IRS official apologizes for lavish spending
Stephen Ohlemacher, Alan Fram
Deputy tells House Committee that taxpayer dollars were wasted on expenditures like "Star Trek" parody videos
World’s longest funeral procession?
BARTON E. PRICE
Cyclists around the world pedal together to commemorate fallen riders on the 10th annual Ride of Silence
Karen Russell: All fiction is autobiographical
Jordan Kinser
The "Swamplandia" author on young narrators, editors' heroism and the challenges of her newest novel
Millennials alone can’t save us
Tom Engelhardt
We've left our children a crumbling economy -- and planet. It's a burden they shouldn't shoulder by themselves
Morton Downey Jr.: The man who broke talk TV
Andrew O'Hehir
Before Beck, Rush and Hannity came the brief but horrifying career of proto-Tea Partyer Morton Downey Jr.
Noam Chomsky: America is accelerating the apocalypse
Noam Chomsky
Global warming and nuclear arms conflicts threaten the planet, thanks in no small part to U.S. policy failures
Old Soviet domain is new haven for cybercriminals
Curt Hopkins
The defunct superpower's .SU domain is a refuge for over half of criminal hackers says Russian Internet watchdog
I lost my virginity in a waterfront brothel
Lewis Lapham
As an Ivy League student in the '50s, I longed for adventure. I found it in the National Maritime Union
“The Spy Who Loved”: Britain’s most glamorous agent
Laura Miller
The true story of a Polish countess turned courier and resistance fighter is better than any James Bond novel
Science doesn’t know everything
Jerome Kagan
We understand much about human nature, but scientists are ignoring many important topics, like ethnicity and class
When Canada brewed its way to the top
Matthew J. Bellamy
A look at how Labatt and its allies helped spawn a nation of beer drinkers -- and a brewing capital of the world
Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays: The best rivalry of baseball’s golden age
Allen Barra
Who was better: Mickey Mantle or Willie Mays? Fifty years after their rookie season, we're still debating it
Breast-feeding is hell
Dawn Dais
I don't care what the lactation consultants and baby books say. Trying to nurse my child was an exercise in failure
Call of the wild sounds like a ring tone
Alex Hutchinson
From the Grand Canyon to the Pacific Ocean, the remotest places on Earth now have cellphone reception
American exceptionalism is a dangerous myth
Patrick Smith
Move beyond Tea Party lies and phony patriotism. This Memorial Day, let's remember our history honestly
“You Are My Sunshine”: How a maudlin song became a children’s classic
Stephen Deusner
The amazing history of "You Are My Sunshine" -- the miracle song for Oklahoma, Jimmie Davis, Ray Charles and more
What does it really feel like to fall out of a building?
Claudia Hammond
Life speeds up when we get older and slows down when we are terrified. Unlocking the mysteries of time perception
I don’t hate millennials anymore!
Jennie-Rebecca Falcetta
So they don't know John Hughes or the Cure or have a generational identity. This Gen Xer now sympathizes with Gen Y
Illinois’ fracking and coal rush is a national crisis
Jeff Biggers
Illinois and its Mississippi River banks are becoming another ground zero in the war over climate change
Steven Spielberg to produce “Halo” television series
Prachi Gupta
The show will only be available to stream via the new Xbox
When America became a third-world country
Jo Comerford, Mattea Kramer
Public investment has been a key to U.S. prosperity for the past century. Sequestration will undo all that
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