When one female scientist’s thirty years of research contradicted the established theory of dinosaur extinction, people started calling her a bitch that should be burned at the stake.
2018
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Raphael Saadiq Interviewed by Elise R. Peterson
Musician Raphael Saadiq talks about soul music and his own career’s longevity.
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What Happened at Camp Lejeune
Living next to North Carolina Naval Base Camp Lejeune, Lori Lou Freshwater grew up drinking and bathing in water contaminated at levels 240 to 3400 times the safety standard. Now a Superfund site and a candidate for “the worst water contamination case in U.S. history,” the area’s carcinogens caused her mother to lose two sons, one […]
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North Carolina’s Military Toxic Waste Negligence
A reporter’s North Carolina hometown water supply contaminated millions of people, including her mother and two of her now-deceased brothers.
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Why Doesn’t Boston Give New Edition Their Due?
G. Valentino Ball wonders whether Bostonians understand the true impact of New Edition, the boy band formed in late 70’s Roxbury that became the prototype for Boyz II Men, New Kids on the Block, the Backstreet Boys, and NSYNC.
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The Nastiest Feud in Science
Do you think a giant asteroid caused the earth’s most recent mass extinction? Princeton paleontologist Gerta Keller has a competing theory, and her decades of research have earned her so much ire in the scientific community that she keeps a list of insults others have thrown at her.
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An Inquiry Into Abuse
Allegations that Richard Nixon beat his wife, Pat Nixon, have circulated for decades without serious examination by the journalists who covered his presidency. It’s time to look more closely at what’s been hiding in plain view.
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The Taking of Freret Street
The author Maurice Carlos Ruffin on the losses and fallout of gentrification in post-Katrina New Orleans.
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Privatizing Poverty
Two new books on poverty, Not a Crime to Be Poor (Peter Edelman) and The Poverty of Privacy Rights (Khiara M. Bridges), suggest that poor people are disproportionately surveilled, imprisoned, and monitored — “treated presumptively as lawbreakers” — so that the state can “redress its budget shortfalls” by imposing exploitative fines on anyone without ready access to hundreds or […]
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The Protagonist
Vulture staff writer E. Alex Jung profiles Sandra Oh, the first actress of Asian descent to be nominated for an Emmy award in the lead drama category.