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The Baby in the Well

In 2008, Karina Encarnacion, an eight year-old girl from Missouri, wrote to President-elect Barack Obama with some advice about what kind of dog he should get for his daughters. She also suggested…
AUTHOR:Paul Bloom
PUBLISHED: May 20, 2013
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3031 words)

China at the crossroads of renewal and breakdown

Over a three-week train journey along the path of Chairman Mao’s historic Long March of the 1930s, correspondent Mark MacKinnon travelled into the economic giant’s heartland, beyond the…
PUBLISHED: March 30, 2013
LENGTH: 2 minutes (697 words)

An Open Letter to the Girl I Pretended To Have a Crush On in Eighth Grade

Dear Tracy Dolan, Every gay teenager has a different strategy for surviving adolescence. Some join the choir, some write or paint, some play sports, some try to make themselves invisible. And some,…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 15, 2013
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5660 words)

Fussbudget

“If you’re going to criticize, you should propose,” Ryan says of his budget plan.
AUTHOR:Ryan Lizza
PUBLISHED: Aug. 6, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (929 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)

How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy

No one would accuse Jaroslav Flegr of being a conformist. A self-described “sloppy dresser,” the 63-year-old Czech scientist has the contemplative air of someone habitually lost in…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2873 words)
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