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How Did So Many Writers Get
Access to Opiates?

Mapping Addiction, From Cocteau to Burroughs
February 5, 2019  By Lucy Inglis
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Beirut, Modernism’s Vanished Utopia

Poets, Politics, and Freedom Before Lebanon's Civil War
February 4, 2019  By Robyn Creswell
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How We Use Stunning Visuals to Tell the Stories of Science

13 Unforgettable Images by Photographer Felice Frankel
January 31, 2019  By Felice C. Frankel
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The Act of Resistance the Nazis Used to Justify Kristallnacht

On the Assassination of Ernst vom Rath by 17-Year-Old Herschel Grynszpan
January 31, 2019  By Stephen Koch
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A Brief History of Guantanamo Bay, America’s “Idyllic Prison Camp”

A Hundred Years at the Edge of Empire
January 30, 2019  By Stephen Benz
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One Family’s Story of the Great Migration North

Bridgett M. Davis Tracks Her Mother's Journey from Nashville to Detroit
January 30, 2019  By Bridgett M. Davis
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Want To Be Happy?
Live Like a Woman Over 50

"Happiness depends on how we deal with what we are given."
January 29, 2019  By Mary Pipher
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Can Environmental Activism Succeed in China?

On the Aftereffects of the "Economic Miracle"
January 28, 2019  By Klaus Mühlhahn
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When the Dismal Science Tries to Study Happiness

Feeling Blue? Talk to an Economist
January 26, 2019  By David Pilling
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My Name is Fritz Mayer: An Account of Buchenwald

"These were terrible hours, when we waited for our names to be called."
January 25, 2019  By Mark Mayer
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How Virginia Woolf Taught
Me to Mourn

Two Writers Grieving for a Parent, a Century Apart
January 25, 2019  By Katharine Smyth
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The Climate Crisis Requires Us to Use All the Tools We Have

The Case for Nuclear Power Alongside Renewables
January 24, 2019  By Joshua Goldstein and Staffan Qvist
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Dani Shapiro: Did My Parents Even Know?

On Unraveling the Mystery of My Conception
January 23, 2019  By Dani Shapiro
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In Aristotle’s Ideal Democracy, a Good Citizen Was a Good Friend

On the Virtues of "Civic Friendship"
January 23, 2019  By Edith Hall
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David Treuer on the Myth of an Edenic, Pre-Columbian ‘New’ World

Indigenous American Civilizations Are Far Older and More Complex Than History Suggests
January 22, 2019  By David Treuer
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An Account of the Blinding of
Sgt. Isaac Woodard by the Police Officer, Lynwood Shull

A Decorated WWII Veteran Returns to the Jim Crow South
January 22, 2019  By Richard Gergel
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On the Absurdities of Law on the US-Mexican Border

"I tried to imagine what heritage a border could have."
January 22, 2019  By J. J. Mulligan Sepúlveda
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Why Does This Small Vermont Town Have So Many Olympians?

“I don’t know if it’s the well water or what.”
January 22, 2019  By Karen Crouse
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Did Diderot’s Legacy Live Up
To His Genius?

How the 18th-Century Philosopher Was Forgotten and Rediscovered
January 18, 2019  By Andrew S. Curran
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On Black Millennials in Search
of the New South

Reniqua Allen Tackles the Idea of the "Black Mecca"
January 18, 2019  By Reniqua Allen
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