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Overexposed: A Photographer's War With PTSD

"One of the truly great things about war ... is that all you have to do is survive." Marines run for cover after white phosphorus was accidentally fired at them by another company in Falluja, Iraq on…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 20, 2012
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3865 words)

The Marriage Plot: Inside This Year's Epic Campaign for Gay Equality

How activists rewrote the political playbook, reversed decades of defeat, and finally won over voters. Jane Abbott Lighty and Pete-e Petersen embrace after receiving the first same-sex marriage…
AUTHOR:Molly Ball
PUBLISHED: Dec. 11, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2162 words)

The Insourcing Boom

For much of the past decade, General Electric’s storied Appliance Park, in Louisville, Kentucky, appeared less like a monument to American manufacturing prowess than a memorial to it. The very…
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1367 words)

Slugfest

By the fall of 1994, Edward Kennedy, then 62 years old, had spent more than half his life in the U.S. Senate. He had cruised to reelection five times after his only even slightly competitive…
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2055 words)

For the Amish, Big Agribusiness Is Destroying a Way of Life

In upstate New York, small farmers are being squeezed out by thousand-cow dairies and genetically modified crop producers. The buggy-driving members of a traditional sect may be hit hardest of…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 20, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2010 words)

Will and Erwynn met at church and fell in love. But they had a big problem—“don’t ask, don’t tell.” The unlikely story of the first gay military union.

Tech. Sgt. Erwynn Umali (right) and Will Behrens (left) at the McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst chapel, where their civil union was held on June 23, 2012.Photo by Jeff Sheng It’s almost Christmas, and I’m…
PUBLISHED: July 17, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (904 words)

From 'Brown' to 'Lawrence': On the Struggle for Gay Civil Rights

In 1890 Louisiana passed a law requiring “equal but separate” train carriages for white and black passengers. The penalty for refusing to comply was a $25 fine or up to twenty…
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3975 words)

Andrew Breitbart (1969-2012)

With a terrible feeling of pain and loss we announce the passing of Andrew Breitbart. Andrew passed away unexpectedly from natural causes shortly after midnight this morning in Los Angeles. We have…
PUBLISHED: March 1, 2012

Sex and the Married Politician

The list of politicos laid low by sexual scandal grows ever longer. It hasnt always been this way. Fifty years ago, the press famously considered politicians sex lives off-limits, however…
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1115 words)
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