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The NRA vs. America | Politics News

Fredrik Brodén Eleven days after the massacre, Wayne LaPierre – a lifelong political operative who had steadied the National Rifle Association through many crises – stood before an…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 31, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (912 words)

How NRA’s true believers converted a marksmanship group into a mighty gun lobby

In gun lore it’s known as the Revolt at Cincinnati. On May 21, 1977, and into the morning of May 22, a rump caucus of gun rights radicals took over the annual meeting of the National Rifle…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 13, 2013
LENGTH: 2 minutes (534 words)

Mormon Money, Scientology's Hollywood Apostate, and a Freshman Priest

Extra Medium / flickr This week, many Americans are braving holiday travel to spend time with family and loved ones. Here are five great longreads on religion to make for interesting travel…
LENGTH: 2 minutes (674 words)

Jimi: The Man and the Music

Jimi Hendrix on the cover of 'Rolling Stone.' Gered Mankowitz This is from the February 6th, 1992 issue of Rolling Stone. When Jimi Hendrix sent his Fender Stratocaster up in flames at the end of his…
PUBLISHED: July 2, 2012
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1184 words)

Everything You've Heard About Failing Schools Is Wrong

Illustration by Jon Krause"SPEEK EENGLISH, TACO," THE GIRL with the giant backpack yelled when Maria asked where to find a bathroom. The backpack giggled as it bounced down the hall. It had been…
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2048 words)

Money Unlimited

By having the case reargued, Roberts put the liberals in a box and transformed the decision’s impact on political campaigns.
PUBLISHED: May 21, 2012
LENGTH: 38 minutes (9720 words)

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The Way It Was

In 1959, when I was a precocious smarty-pants still in grade school, I wrote a fake letter to Doris Blake, the New York Daily News advice columnist. I pretended to be a teenage girl "in trouble." I…
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1887 words)

The Race to Save the Cougar Ace

Latitude 48 14 North. Longitude 174 26 West. Almost midnight on the North Pacific, about 230 miles south of Alaska's Aleutian Islands. A heavy fog blankets the sea. There's nothing but the wind…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 25, 2008
LENGTH: 36 minutes (9165 words)
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