“Asylum” technically means “a place of safety or refuge,” but that’s not now many psychiatric in-patients experience their time on psych wards.
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Abuse of Faith
Debbie Vasquez was molested by her pastor at 14. In her 40s, she asked leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention to take action against sexual abuse. They didn’t, and hundreds more have suffered.
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Years of Warnings, Then Death and Disaster
“The men and women of the Navy deserve better.”
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My Life at 47 Is Back to What It Was Like at 27
“I’m talking about my situational set point, the version of myself that inevitably swings back into the foreground even if I’ve managed to pretend to be another kind of person for a period of time.”
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Into the Mouth of Madness and Out Again, Alive
“The pool drill, the rock drill, the sedation drill. Everything is done. Everything but the thing that’s never been done.”
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Fight the Ship: Death and Valor on an American Warship Doomed By Its Own Navy
When a cargo ship plowed into the USS Fitzgerald, it tore a hole in the destroyer as big as a tractor trailer; seven sailors ultimately died. A cargo ship should be hard to miss, so how did it happen?
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Why Must We Tarnish the Glittering Legacy of Italo Disco with Petty Squabbles
There’s no “I” in “Disco.” Oh wait, yes there is. This is why we can’t have nice things.
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Exile, Compounded
“His brother, he assumed, was in the island’s detention facility, waiting to be sent to Athens with hundreds of other migrants. Days turned into weeks. Every time Javed tried Masood’s phone, the call went straight to voicemail. After a month passed with no word, it dawned on Javed that his brother was missing.”
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The Bicycle Thief
He was an Olympic hopeful in track cycling. Then he was a bank robber, more prolific than Dillinger, with a bright orange getaway bike. And then he was a prisoner, caught by his distinctive wheels.
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The Pain of Loss, Through Centuries and Books
“My father is dead, I said to myself, my father is dead. Again and again I said it, and still I failed to grasp what it meant.”