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Fleeing Occupied Raqqa

Memories Always Hit You Hardest When You’re Leaving,
and the Good Ones are the Most Painful of All
May 17, 2018  By Marwan Hisham and Molly Crabapple
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The Water War That Polarized
1920s California

When a "Scofflaw Carnival" Occupied the L.A. Aqueduct
May 17, 2018  By Gary Krist
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How Psilocybin Could Be Used in Mental Health Treatment

Michael Pollan on the Lost History of Psychedelic Therapy
May 15, 2018  By Michael Pollan
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On the Strange, Artistic World
of Marfa, Texas

"Whenever I’m in Marfa I Feel like I’m in a Twilight Zone Episode"
May 14, 2018  By Lawrence Wright
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Colin Kaepernick: A True Dissident

How He Exposed the Sports World’s Limited Scope, Curiosity, and Critical Thinking
May 11, 2018  By Howard Bryant
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How My Father Introduced Me to Precision Engineering

On the Art of Turning Shapeless Hard Metal Into Objects of Beauty and Utility
May 10, 2018  By Simon Winchester
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A Letter to My Daughter About the Black Magic of Banking

Yanis Varoufakis Has Some Thoughts on Capitalism
May 8, 2018  By Yanis Varoufakis
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In Search of the Great Wooly Mammoth

Craig Childs on the Clovis People—Dedicated Mammoth Hunters
May 7, 2018  By Craig Childs
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In Terms of Animal Welfare, Hunting is More Humane Than Farming

On the "Fair Chase" vs. the Factory Farm
May 4, 2018  By Philip Dray
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How the Coney Island Sideshow Saved Thousands of Babies

Before Neonatal Care in Hospitals, There Were Incubators at the Carnival
May 3, 2018  By Tessa Fontaine
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What If We Haven’t Met Aliens Yet Because They’ve Messed Up Their Planets Too?

Nathan H. Lents Wonders If We're the Best the Universe Can Do
May 3, 2018  By Nathan H. Lents
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What Happens When You Sail
Into a Hurricane

The Final Hours of the Merchant Ship El Faro
May 2, 2018  By Rachel Slade
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How Gay Liberation Sparked the Nightclub Scene in London

Peter Ackroyd on AIDS in the UK, Clause 28, and the Gay Liberation Front
May 2, 2018  By Peter Ackroyd
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The Last Days of James Baldwin’s House in the South of France

Where Miles Davis, Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder and More Once Met
April 27, 2018  By Magdalena J. Zaborowska
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Do We Even Need Men?

John Launer on One of Evolution's Greatest Unanswered Questions
April 24, 2018  By John Launer
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Why Does Da Vinci’s Jesus Look So. . . Stoned?

Mike Lankford on the High Renaissance
April 20, 2018  By Mike Lankford
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Why Is Caring About Fashion Considered Unserious?

madison moore on Appearance, Class Status, and Sense of Self
April 19, 2018  By madison moore
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When War Destroyed
My Grandmother’s Grave

In Iraq, War Comes with Various Names
April 19, 2018  By Dunya Mikhail
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How Did African Hippos End Up in Colombia?

On Pablo Escobar's Failed Menagerie
April 17, 2018  By Lucy Cooke
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On James Baldwin’s Radical Writing for Playboy Magazine

Masculine Fantasy and the Subversive Possibilities of Androgyny
April 17, 2018  By Joseph Vogel
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