Bullies
They can be stopped, but it takes a village.
Is It Now a Crime to Be Poor?
It’s too bad so many people are falling into poverty at a time when it’s almost illegal to be poor. You won’t be arrested for shopping in a Dollar Store, but if you are truly, deeply, in-the-streets poor, you’re well advised not to engage in any of the biological necessities of life — like sitting, sleeping, lying down or loitering.
Cattle rustling on the rise again in Texas
An Old West crime becomes new again, partly in response to the recession. One disgusted Texas Ranger says rustlers ‘disgrace the cowboy name.’
Don and Betty’s Paradise Lost
On Mad Men creator (and former Sopranos writer) Matthew Weiner, the casting of Jon Hamm and January Jones as Don and Betty Draper, and the obsession that fuels each episode.
What’s a Big City Without a Newspaper?
Now down to a besieged two, Philadelphia is a particularly good place to observe what appears to be big-city journalism’s last stand, when many of America’s metropolitan newspapers must quickly figure out how to become profitable again or face likely extinction.
Wilder Women
The mother and daughter behind the Little House stories.
The Art of Letting Employees Go
The Last Abortion Doctor
For thirty-six years, Warren Hern has been one of the few doctors in America to specialize in late abortions. George Tiller was another. And when Dr. Tiller was murdered that Sunday in church, Warren Hern became the only one left.
Cinema: Well, Hello Molly Ringwald!
American Football
Seattle is leading the charge to make soccer into an American sport. If “we” don’t do it, who will?
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