How a Gun-Loving West Texas Girl Learned to Fear Assault Weapons

I love guns. I'm from West Texas -- most of us harbor respect for guns, if not outright love. I vacillate between the high sixties and the mid eighties, which is good for a woman who only gets to…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2865 words)

Chadiha: Life after NFL a struggle for many

Tiki Barber can't say exactly how the routine started a couple of years ago. He knows only that it came as easily to him as carrying the football for the New York Giants during his glory years. He'd…
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2614 words)

Sleeping with the Enemy

PUBLISHED: Aug. 15, 2011
LENGTH: 2 minutes (571 words)

Why Can’t More Poor People Escape Poverty?

Flannery OConnor once described the contradictory desires that afflict all of us with characteristic simplicity. Free will does not mean one will, she wrote, but many wills conflicting in one man.…
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1759 words)
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