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The Missionary Movement to ‘Save’ Black Babies

Last December, Care Net—the nation’s largest network of evangelical Christian crisis pregnancy centers—featured a birth announcement of sorts on the website of its 10-year-old…
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5082 words)

Dear 02A3172: Letters To and From a Caged Bird

In 1999, when I was 19 years old, I was arrested and charged with first degree murder, several counts of attempted murder, attempted robbery, and several counts of criminal use of a weapon. I was…
SOURCE:gawker.com
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3785 words)

Pride and Prejudice at 200: looking afresh at Austen's classic

Bharat Tandon on Mrs Bennet 'A woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper' … Alison Steadman as Mrs Bennet in the 1995 BBC adaptation. Photograph: BBC Read the opening…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 26, 2013
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4457 words)

John McAfee: 'I don't see myself as paranoid'

John McAfee … 'He's clearly trying to mess with everybody's heads.' Photograph: Reuters The name McAfee is ubiquitous and boring, a piece of antivirus software that pops up on computer screens around…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 20, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2347 words)

The Party Next Time

When historians look back on Mitt Romney’s bid for the Presidency, one trend will be clear: no Republican candidate ever ran a similar campaign again. For four decades, from Richard Nixon to Ronald…
AUTHOR:Ryan Lizza
PUBLISHED: Nov. 19, 2012
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1076 words)

Big Sugar's Sweet Little Lies

Illustration: Chris BuzelliOn a brisk spring Tuesday in 1976, a pair of executives from the Sugar Association stepped up to the podium of a Chicago ballroom to accept the Oscar of the public…
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2317 words)
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