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When A 10-Year-Old Kills His Nazi Father, Who's To Blame?

Image by Johan Persson/Kontinent/Redux Two flags dangle from a banister into the middle of a living room in a modest two-story suburban home in Riverside — one of the far-flung exurbs of Southern…
SOURCE:BuzzFeed
LENGTH: 25 minutes (6342 words)

How Crazy Is Too Crazy to Be Executed?

Andre Thomas is escorted by officers during his 2005 murder trial. Chris Jennings/Herald Democrat Years later, after Andre Thomas had been convicted of killing his estranged wife, his 4-year-old son…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 12, 2013
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1441 words)

Long Stories for Undecided Voters

“Low-information voter” used to be something of a term of art for political scientists: a person who picks a candidate because of something superficial and flighty. Now, however,…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 2, 2012
LENGTH: 2 minutes (521 words)

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1. What Happened to the Girls in Le RoySusan Dominus | New York Times Magazine | March 7, 2012 | 30 Minutes (7,584 words)Teenagers in a small town mysteriously fall ill, suffering from…
LENGTH: 1 minutes (272 words)

The Forgetting Pill Erases Painful Memories Forever

Jeffrey Mitchell, a volunteer firefighter in the suburbs of Baltimore, came across the accident by chance: A car had smashed into a pickup truck loaded with metal pipes. Mitchell tried to help, but…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 17, 2012
LENGTH: 24 minutes (6125 words)

how it feels to be young and struggling in the EU

Maybe being young is never easy. But being a twentysomething young European has rarely been more stressful.More than a quarter (28%) of Italians between 16 and 24 are unemployed. Others are…
AUTHOR:Viola Caon
PUBLISHED: Jan. 28, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2263 words)

The Unlikely Event

Because I do not want to die in the brawny arms of an industrial-kitchen-fixtures salesman from Tulsa—at least, not one I’ve only just met—I don’t much care for airline…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 28, 2011
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1651 words)

Brass

Photot by Alec Soth / Magnum Images. Mother comes back one evening and she starts up at supper about feng shui, how our house isnt organized for a happy life, how the front door should never…
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3218 words)
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