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Single Payer Health Insurance Bill Orphaned In California by by Tom Gallagher

A VERY STRANGE THING HAPPENED to the California single payer health care bill this year. It disappeared. This disappearance was no small thing. Single payer has actually passed both California…
LENGTH: 2 minutes (548 words)

How Americans Lost the Right to Counsel, 50 Years After 'Gideon'

You have a right to an attorney in a criminal case, even if you cannot afford one. The Supreme Court said so half a century ago. But today that precious right is systematically ignored or undermined.…
PUBLISHED: March 13, 2013
LENGTH: 25 minutes (6352 words)

The Robot Will See You Now

harley lukov didn’t need a miracle. He just needed the right diagnosis. Lukov, a 62-year-old from central New Jersey, had stopped smoking 10 years earlier—fulfilling a promise he’d made to his…
PUBLISHED: March 21, 2013
LENGTH: 27 minutes (6774 words)

Yoko Ono and Her Sixteen-Track Voice | Music News

Yoko Ono at home in the United Kingdom. Michael Putland/Getty Images In
PUBLISHED: March 18, 1971
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1400 words)

Cinema Tarantino: The Making of Pulp Fiction

The first independent film to gross more than $200 million, Pulp Fiction was a shot of adrenaline to Hollywood’s heart, reviving John Travolta’s career, making stars of Samuel L. Jackson and Uma…
PUBLISHED: March 1, 2013
LENGTH: 36 minutes (9048 words)

Abortion Backlash: Women Lose

A woman at a reproductive rights march in Pittsburgh. Barbara Freeman/Getty Images
PUBLISHED: Nov. 3, 1977
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1813 words)

Why is Superman still so popular?

A movie trailer for this year's eagerly awaited update of the Superman story contains a moment which appears to subvert one of the most famous characters in the American cultural landscape. At first…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 5, 2013
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1328 words)

Longreads Member Exclusive: 'The American Nonconformist,' by Thomas Frank

We saw this trend approaching a million consumer-miles away. It was inevitable: the Protest Generation comes of age as the Generation of Super-Consumers.    -Faith Popcorn, 1991  …
LENGTH: 2 minutes (701 words)

The Three Robert Leightons

Adam Tanner on To Tell the Truth from the original 1978 New York broadcast Still from NBC Studios 1978. The last time I saw Robert Leighton, I was pretending to be him. In 1978, we became fo
PUBLISHED: Oct. 18, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2632 words)
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