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A Lonely X Eva Xiao[ROMANCE]“I'm just wingin' it,” she says. “I told my mom I was going speed dating in White River, and she told me to find a sugar daddy.” I tell…
LENGTH: 1 minutes (254 words)

Schizophrenic. Killer. My Cousin.

Mark with Houston at Houston's high school graduation in 2009 Courtesy of the familyTHE THING THAT STRUCK ME when I first met my cousin Houston was his size. He wasn't much taller than me, if at all,…
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1601 words)

Orphan Fever: The Evangelical Movement's Adoption Obsession

Illustration: Brian Cronin IN 2005, SAM ALLISON, a Tennessee housepainter in his 30s, arrived at Daniel Hoover Children's Village, an orphanage outside Monrovia, Liberia. He'd come to adopt three…
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1325 words)

The Weeklies

From the outside, it is hard to know that people live in the Ramada Inn. The parking lot is always empty. The hotel sits facing a wide suburban boulevard called Kipling Street, just off Interstate 70…
LENGTH: 28 minutes (7232 words)

The Master

Robert Berman’s English class was a “cult of personality,” one student said. “There was so much desire to please.” Illustration by Owen Freeman.
PUBLISHED: April 1, 2013
LENGTH: 50 minutes (12694 words)
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My brother’s life, unraveled

My brother, Anthony, killed himself on a cool Thursday afternoon in April, a few weeks before his medical school graduation. He was 26.He was staying with our parents in the New York suburbs. On his…
PUBLISHED: March 12, 2013
LENGTH: 21 minutes (5470 words)

Tiny Little Laws | Gender

My second day at the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in the Dakotas, an official from the Bureau of Indian Affairs sent a memo to all its law enforcement employees forbidding them to talk to me. One…
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1762 words)

Art in Chongqing

In Chongqing, the world’s largest city, which sprawls over a sharp bend in the Yangtze River, is a neighborhood surrounded by green hills called Huangjueping. The road through it is broad and…
AUTHOR:Audrea Lim
PUBLISHED: March 4, 2013
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4821 words)

Attacked at 19 by an Air Force Trainer, and Speaking Out

Lackland Rape Victim Talks of Ordeal: Virginia Messick was raped by her training instructor at Lackland Air Force Base in 2011. She is the first Lackland victim to speak publicly, in this exclusive…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 26, 2013
LENGTH: 2 minutes (686 words)
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