“Laurel Haught moved out of her own home to escape her unvaccinated daughter. Now they are facing a funeral, the coming holidays and the divide splitting many American families.”
Seyward Darby
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Inside Jane Campion’s Cinema of Tenderness and Brutality
“In ‘The Power of the Dog,’ her first movie in 12 years, the filmmaker ventures into the American West — and the inner worlds of cruel, complicated men.”
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Have Democrats Reached the Limits of White Appeasement Politics?
In short: Pretty much.
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Inside Felicia Sonmez’s War Against ‘The Washington Post’
“Why was a reporter punished for speaking up about sexual assault?”
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Out Past the Eye-Mark
“An anchor, like ink, fixes in place what floats, what is unmoored: boats, bodies, thoughts…. Anchoring thought in ink is what we call writing.”
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Where Is the Mystery Monkey of Tampa Bay?
“The primate who ruled the news vanished again. A quest to find him led deep into Florida’s monkey kingdom.”
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The CIA Is Trying to Recruit Gen Z—and Doesn’t Care If They’re All Over Social Media
“You’d think a generation of folks raised on making look-at-me posts on social media could never go work at the Agency. You’d be wrong.”
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An Extraordinary 500-Year-Old Shipwreck Is Rewriting the History of the Age of Discovery
“In the frigid Baltic Sea, archaeologists probing the surprisingly well-preserved remains of a revolutionary warship are seeing the era in a new way.”
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How the Maestro Got His Hands Back
“A lifetime of brutal injuries and misfortune robbed the world-renowned pianist João Carlos Martins of the ability to play his instrument. And then along came an eccentric designer and his bionic gloves.”
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Selling Certainty
“In a sea of skeptics, this physician was one of fibromyalgia patients’ few true allies. Or was he?”