Our inherited biases about who should write what live deeper than most of us realize or want to acknowledge.
Culture
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Here’s What Put Thousands of Californians in the Path of a Blaze
Forest mismanagement, political corruption, and PG&E’s corporate culture created a highly combustible situation.
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Reading Lessons
You never stop learning how to read — probably because you also never stop forgetting how to read.
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Bundyville: The Remnant, Chapter Five: The Remnant
The Kingdom of Heaven, borne out of blood
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American Green
How did the plain green lawn become the central landscaping feature in America, and what is the ecological cost?
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Bundyville: The Remnant, Chapter Four: The Preacher and the Politician
If America collapses, some see that as an opportunity to reboot society. They say they have God on their side.
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Bundyville: The Remnant, Chapter Three: The Widow’s Tale
When LaVoy Finicum was shot by law enforcement, the anti-government movement called him a martyr. That message is spreading.
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Bundyville: The Remnant, Chapter One: A Quiet Man
When a bomb exploded in a tiny desert town, there was no doubt who did it. But no one could understand why.
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The No. 1 Ladies’ Defrauding Agency
What a 19th-century scammer can teach us about women, lying, and economic boom-and-bust cycles