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The Bald Eagle: National Symbol, Rockstar… Dubious Moral Character?

Lia Purpura on Four Eagles in Her Life
April 5, 2019  By Lia Purpura
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Rumors of the ‘Gay Gene’ Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

On Richard Dawkins and the Dangers of Reductive Science
April 5, 2019  By Literary Hub
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Free to Be… You and Me (And Childfree)

Helen Ellis on Going From Avoiding Sex to Scheduling It
April 4, 2019  By Helen Ellis
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The French Satirist Who Brought Anarchy Into Art

On Georges Blondeaux, or Gébé
April 3, 2019  By Edward Gauvin
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Aging in America: Cherríe Moraga on Her Mother’s Struggles

Growing Up in a Mexican-American Family and Revering One's Elders
April 3, 2019  By Cherrie Moraga
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Why Am I So Embarrassed About
Hiring a Nanny?

On Neocolonial Guilt and the Erasure of Women's Labor
April 3, 2019  By Megan Stack
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Édouard Louis: On the Youth My
Father Never Really Had

From Who Killed My Father
April 2, 2019  By Edouard Louis
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On the Putin System: How a Dictator Maintains His Power

Grigory Yavlinsky Considers Power and Corruption in Contemporary Russia
April 2, 2019  By Grigory Yavlinsky
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How Do People Actually… Change?

Lori Gottlieb Examines One of the Harder Questions of Existence
April 2, 2019  By Lori Gottlieb
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Science: The ‘Colorblind’ Approach to Racism Doesn’t Work

You Can't Make Your Kids Nonracist by Pretending Race Doesn't Exist
April 2, 2019  By Jennifer L. Eberhardt, PhD
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How to Cuss Like No One’s Listening

Katherine Dunn on the Importance of Specificity in Swearing
April 1, 2019  By Katherine Dunn
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How the Contemporary Cancer Memoir
is Reconfiguring Grief

Anna Leahy on Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and Coping with Death Before It Comes
March 29, 2019  By Anna Leahy
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Anatomy of a Perfect Album: On Joni Mitchell’s Blue

"Only a phase, these dark café days."
March 28, 2019  By John Corbett
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Religious Cult, Force for Civil Rights, or Both?

On Father and Mother Divine, and the Peace Mission Movement
March 28, 2019  By Adam Morris
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A Brief History of That Most Noble Tuber, the Potato

Rebecca Earle Brings a Little Humanity to a Humble Vegetable
March 28, 2019  By Rebecca Earle
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Did Seneca Write a Treatise on Anger in Response to Unstable Leaders?

"Your anger is a kind of madness." The Ancients Talking About Twitter, Probably
March 26, 2019  By James Romm
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Deep Time and an Uncertain Futureon the Orkney Islands

Considering Energy Solutions in Remote Communities
March 25, 2019  By Laura Watts
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The Quest to Acquire the Oldest, Most Expensive Book on the Planet

Unwrapping the Most Beautiful Gutenberg of Them All
March 21, 2019  By Margaret Leslie Davis
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Barry Lopez on the Hard Question of Humanity’s Survival

Thoughts on Life from a Remote Arctic Island
March 20, 2019  By Barry Lopez
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After the Big One: Can You Imagine America Without Los Angeles?

The San Andreas Fault is Not Messing Around
March 19, 2019  By Lucy Jones
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