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The Caging of America

A prison is a trap for catching time. Good reporting appears often about the inner life of the American prison, but the catch is that American prison life is mostly undramatic—the reported stories fail to grab us, because, for the most part, nothing happens.
LENGTH: 24 minutes (6076 words)

The Andy Griffith Show —“Opie The Birdman”

Welcome to the Summertime Roundtable, where some of TV Club’s writers tackle episodes that all deal with a central theme. The theme for the first eight installments is adolescence.…
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4102 words)

Hillsborough and Battle of Orgreave

They were two of the bitterest landmarks of the 1980s, but the connections between them have not previously been fully appreciated – the Hillsborough disaster, 23 years ago this Sunday, in…
AUTHOR:David Conn
PUBLISHED: April 12, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2541 words)

Could Wales leave the United Kingdom?

Leanne Wood is rather different from most of the UK's politicians. Forty years old and a mother of one, she still lives in the same street in the Rhondda Valley where she was born and brought up.…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 1, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2577 words)

Why doesn't Britain make things any more?

Before moving to Yale and becoming a bestselling historian, Paul Kennedy grew up on Tyneside in the 50s and 60s. "A world of great noise and much dirt," is how he remembers it, where the chief…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 16, 2011
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2790 words)

Eddie Murphy: The Rolling Stone Interview

November 9, 2011 4:45 PM ET …
PUBLISHED: Nov. 9, 2011
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1530 words)

'I'm not ready to give up my American citizenship'

In the weeks leading up to this interview, I began to think there must be some law that makes it illegal not to love Johnny Depp. Everyone melts into a puddle at the mention of his name. Men go…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 6, 2011
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2557 words)
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