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Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek

After a few minutes, the small talk faded. Worries went unexpressed. “When you’re up on top of a peak like that, it’s usually hang out for a second, and then it’s…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 20, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2164 words)

Redistributing Up

The federal government has emerged as one of the most potent factors behind the rise in income inequality in the United States -- especially in Washington, D.C. LEFT BEHIND: The poverty rate in D.C.…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 18, 2012
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4290 words)

The Best Longreads on Gun Violence and Policy

The Ku Klux Klan, Ronald Reagan, and, for most of its history, the NRA all worked to control guns. The Founding Fathers? They required gun ownership—and regulated it. And no group has more…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 15, 2012

Seeing God in the Third Millenium

How the brain creates out-of-body experiences and religious epiphanies lupzdut/Flickr There are many carefully documented accounts in the medical literature of intense, life-altering religious…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 12, 2012
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2760 words)
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