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Sheriff Joe’s posse invades Guadalupe

Just days after the NRA’s Wayne LaPierre proclaimed that only “a good guy with a gun” can prevent horrors like the Newtown massacre, America’s most notorious sheriff announced that armed members of…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 17, 2013
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4265 words)

The Movie Teachers' Unions Hate, but Everyone Else Should Appreciate

For all its faults, Won't Back Down offers a welcome alternative to the standard broken-school film plot. Walden Media At least once a decade, Hollywood produces a film like Stand and Deliver (1988),…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 1, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1712 words)

Origins of a Murder

1. The boy wears sweatpants the color of a Louisiana lake; later, the police report will note them as blue, though in every description his mother gives thereafter she will always insist on…
SOURCE:gawker.com
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4701 words)

Red Clay

—Kaitlyn Greenidge So I made my choice. I chose Adia and her mother and endless afternoons of muted, scratchy Fela Kuti records and scored and tattered copies of Assata. I skirted around our…
LENGTH: 30 minutes (7678 words)
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Jeremy Lybarger on Killer on the Road

"Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?" — Jack Kerouac, On the Road IN AUGUST OF 2008, POLICE in Lubbock, Texas, were notified of a woman's body found in a desolate…
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3271 words)

Maria Bustillos on Magic Hours

Some degree of courage is in order if you wish to fully admit your life. You have to take a draught of ego poison to accept the full dimensions of your banality, your sheer corniness and…
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3474 words)
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