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Why Obama won the women's vote

Women celebrating Barack Obama's triumph: they had much to fear from a Romney victory. Photograph: Shawn Thew/Camera Press In the very long list of people who, in what might come to be seen as the…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 7, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1528 words)

The US schools with their own police

The charge on the police docket was "disrupting class". But that's not how 12-year-old Sarah Bustamantes saw her arrest for spraying two bursts of perfume on her neck in class because other children…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 9, 2012
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3037 words)

Summerhill school and the do-as-yer-like kids

Earlier this month, seven generations of past and present pupils gathered to celebrate the 90th anniversary of Summerhill, our progressive, controversial alma mater. The school was set up, in a…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 19, 2011
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2471 words)

Corruption in India: 'All your life you pay for things that should be free'

Anna Hazare waves to the crowd during an anti-corruption protest in Delhi. Photograph: AP Vishal is an ordinary man with an ordinary story of corruption in
PUBLISHED: Aug. 19, 2011
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1391 words)

Roger Ailes and the rise of Fox News

At the Fox News Chrismas party the year the network overtook arch-rival CNN in the cable ratings, tipsy employees were herded down to the basement of a midtown bar in New York. As they gathered…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 10, 2011
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4431 words)

The man who stole the Mona Lisa

A hundred years ago, on 21 August 1911, an Italian painter and decorator slipped from the cupboard in the Louvre where he had been hiding all night, stepped up to the Mona Lisa, freed her from…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 5, 2011
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2023 words)

The Boy Who Lived Forever

Collage by Jo Lynn…
PUBLISHED: July 7, 2011
LENGTH: 2 minutes (627 words)
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