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Police ignored, mishandled sex assaults reported by disabled

Mike Kepka/San Francisco Chronicle Giant palm trees stand at the main gate of the Sonoma Developmental Center, which houses about 500 patients. The police force at California’s developmental…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 29, 2012
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3629 words)

Facts Are Stupid

Jim Fingal and John D'Agata “Story-truth,” Tim O’Brien wrote, “is truer sometimes than happening-truth.” He wrote that in a story called “Good Form,” in his…
AUTHOR:Dan Kois
PUBLISHED: Feb. 15, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2289 words)

Hacked!

As email, documents, and almost every aspect of our professional and personal lives moves onto the cloudremote servers we rely on to store, guard, and make available all of our data whenever and…
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1850 words)

How to Land Your Kid in Therapy

If theres one thing I learned in graduate school, its that the poet Philip Larkin was right. (They fuck you up, your mum and dad, / They may not mean to, but they do.) At the time, I was a…
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1118 words)

10 Essential Books for Thought-Provoking Summer Reading

Everything from cutting-edge scientific ideas to a new philosophy of learning to art that honors living in the momentMemorial Day weekend has come, which mea
PUBLISHED: May 31, 2011
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2502 words)
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