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The Guerilla Skirmishes of the Sexual Revolution

The front page of the the Daily Princetonian, May 7, 1963 Courtesy of the Daily Princetonian The Spring Riot of 1963 flashed across cultural history like a pyrotechnic bu
PUBLISHED: May 9, 2013
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3087 words)
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The Idealist

Aaron Swartz at a Boston Wiki Meetup on Aug. 19, 2009 Photo by Sage Ross/Flickr/Wikimedia Commons On Jan.
PUBLISHED: Feb. 7, 2013
LENGTH: 58 minutes (14593 words)

Charlie Sheen Is Winning with Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III

Charlie Sheen lives in a big, yellow house on a T-shaped intersection in the middle of a fake neighborhood in a gated community off Mulholland Drive. When I arrive there on a Saturday afternoon in…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 30, 2013
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4934 words)

Longreads Member Exclusive: 'Forever Young,' by Jason Johnson

Hungary in the late '80s was one of the most volatile places on Earth. The Soviet Union was on the verge of crumbling, and with it, the Eastern Bloc. The Iron Curtain did not fall without a fight.…
LENGTH: 1 minutes (499 words)

How Good Does Karaoke Have to Be to Qualify as Art?

John Brophy, the mastermind of America’s greatest karaoke night, lives in a well-kept bungalow in a neighborhood of small homes in southeast Portland, Ore. When I visited on a weekday afternoon last…
AUTHOR:Dan Kois
PUBLISHED: Jan. 17, 2013
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1396 words)

IVF, personhood, and the Two-Week Wait.

A human embryo in the stages of early developmentiStockphoto. During our Two Week Waits, my husband and I often take walks to the river near our house. Among couples trying to conceive (or TTC, as…
PUBLISHED: May 23, 2012
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1225 words)
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Since 1979, Brian Murtagh has fought to keep convicted murderer Jeffrey MacDonald in prison

WILMINGTON, N.C. — They are old men now, the doctor and the lawyer, ancient adversaries confronting each other one last time. The doctor shuffles into the courtroom, his feet in socks and…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 6, 2012
LENGTH: 2 minutes (597 words)

The Case of the Mormon Historian

A box of old photos belonging to Michael Quinn at his home. Daryl Peveto/Luceo Images for Slate. © 2012 One Sunday in February of 1993, Michael Quinn wa
PUBLISHED: Nov. 1, 2012
LENGTH: 37 minutes (9329 words)

Free To Be

Free to be ... who? All the musicians, artists, feminists, and other figures mentioned in this series. Want to listen to Free To Be ... You and Me? Here's a Spotify playlist.
AUTHOR:Dan Kois
PUBLISHED: Oct. 23, 2012
LENGTH: 43 minutes (10892 words)
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