“As subway assaults rise and calls for safety increase, a psychiatric nurse must decide who is a risk.”
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Out of the Fog
“Operation Babylift was an earnest attempt to save children during the fall of Saigon. Decades later, a generation of adoptees wrestles with the aftermath.”
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Bad Dojo: Tiger Schulmann Didn’t Get to Be America’s No. 1 Karate Kingpin Without Busting a Few Faces
“Former senseis and business partners accuse Schulmann of building his $35-million-a-year martial-arts empire with Mafia tactics. What, you expect him to apologize?”
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Losers Keepers
“Better to imagine some subterranean Gollum crooning over my memories than to accept them being lost completely.”
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Building a Nest
“Lauren Markham and Jenny Odell discuss people, books, and places as inspiration; grief and the creative process; and the conscious attention required by climate crisis.”
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The Alabama Landline That Keeps Ringing
“Auburn University’s help desk is still answering the public’s calls 70 years on.”
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Rewriting the Relationship Between Elephant and Keeper
“In Thailand, elephant welfare is often pitted against Thai culture and history. One Indigenous elephant keeper offers a glimpse of a third way.”
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On Compost
“I now ignore compost orthodoxy in favour of this one rule: ingredients must have been living (or, like paper, be made from something living)”
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How the War Over Trans Athletes Tore a Volleyball Team Apart
“Blaire Fleming was a little-known college player. Then she suddenly became a symbol of injustice — to both sides of the controversy.”
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The Last of Their Kind
“Are efforts to resurrect the northern white rhino more technological hubris than genuine conservation?”