Articles Tweeted

Newest Picks

Peter Dinklage Was Smart to Say No

In January, the actor Peter Dinklage surprised himself during his own Golden Globe acceptance speech. Dinklage had won the award for best supporting actor in a TV series for his portrayal of…
AUTHOR:Dan Kois
PUBLISHED: March 29, 2012
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3740 words)

Making It in America

I first met Madelyn “Maddie” Parlier in the “clean room” of Standard Motor Products’ fuel-injector assembly line in Greenville, South Carolina. Like everyone else, she…
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3518 words)

A family learns the true meaning of the vow ‘in sickness and in health’

By Susan Baer, The dark-oak farmhouse table where Page and Robert Melton spent many a dinner hour is now laden with vases and framed pictures, fragile pieces of their life together that have to be…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 4, 2011
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5539 words)
}