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The county where no one's gay

Editor's note: John D. Sutter is a human rights and social change columnist for CNN Opinion. E-mail him at CTL@CNN.com or follow him on Twitter (@jdsutter), Facebook or Google+. This column contains…
PUBLISHED: March 25, 2013
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4040 words)

That Other School Shooting

A makeshift memorial that appeared after seven people were killed by a gunman at Oikos University last April. On April 2 last year, a 43-year-old former nursing student named One L. Goh wa
PUBLISHED: March 28, 2013
LENGTH: 21 minutes (5493 words)

The Crime of His Childhood

Joshua A. Miele, here in San Francisco, was 4 when a next-door neighbor came to the gate of his family’s home in Brooklyn and tossed sulfuric acid into his face, blinding him. On an October afternoon
PUBLISHED: March 2, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (805 words)

Come On, Feel the Buzz

To read more great writing from our past issues, click here. Last June, Joe Williams, a reporter for the political newspaper and web news site Politico, said on Martin Bashir’s MSNBC talk show…
LENGTH: 25 minutes (6386 words)

Boss Rail

On the morning of July 23, 2011, passengers hurried across Beijing South Station at the final call to board bullet train D301, heading south on the world’s largest, fastest, and newest high-speed…
AUTHOR:Evan Osnos
PUBLISHED: Oct. 22, 2012
LENGTH: 31 minutes (7974 words)

Locked Up Without a Key in New Orleans

This is the first in a series of articles investigating the failed promise of Gideon v. Wainwright. It was reported in partnership with the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute.   On…
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1012 words)

Jonah Lehrer throws it all away

This is what we know. In June 2012, Jim Romenesko noticed that Jonah Lehrer’s Frontal Cortex post had repeated content he had written for The Wall Street Journal in October 2011. Others,…
AUTHOR:Roxane Gay
PUBLISHED: July 31, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2044 words)

My So-Called Ex-Gay Life

Early in my freshman year of high school, I came home to find my mom sitting on her bed, crying. She had snooped through my e-mail and discovered a message in which I confessed to having a crush on…
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5569 words)

The Story of a Suicide

Dharun Ravi grew up in Plainsboro, New Jersey, in a large, modern house with wide expanses of wood flooring and a swimming pool out back. Assertive and athletic, he used…
AUTHOR:Ian Parker
PUBLISHED: Feb. 6, 2012
LENGTH: 50 minutes (12642 words)
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