Kris and her children didn’t do much press for Season 10, unheard-of for this family or anyone promoting a TV show, really. Call it an educated guess to say that perhaps they didn’t want to be asked about Bruce’s transition. But not because they were shielding Bruce, whom they love. It was not because he […]
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The High-Water Mark: The Battle of Gettysburg, the Jersey Shore, and the Death of My Father
Contemplating history, family, and today’s America, Dane A. Wisher tells the story of spreading his father’s ashes on the battlefield at Gettysburg National Park and coming to terms with his life and death.
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How Ornette Coleman’s Free Jazz Freed Rock and Roll
Always the kind of personality who cut through false distinctions, Coleman could boast a lineage both in punk rock and, with his collective-improvisation aesthetic, in the very music that punk rock often claimed to set out to destroy, hippie psychedelia and stadium rock. Bassist Jack Bruce of Cream, who had a jazz background, told the […]
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How the ACLU Came to Publish a Powerful Piece of Investigative Journalism
“Out of the Darkness” chronicles how two psychologists teamed up with the CIA to devise a torture program and experiment on human beings.
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What It’s Like to Fly Into a Thunderstorm
The art and science of cloud seeding, from the pilots who fly directly into storms to help save farmers’ crops.
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Budd & Leni
The story of Hollywood screenwriter Budd Schulberg’s unlikely collaboration with Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl.
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David Letterman’s Reluctance on Becoming an Actor
From The AV Club’s oral history of Airplane!, which looks back on how the hit 1980 comedy was made.
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A ‘Survivor’ Producer, a Dead Wife, Four Years in a Mexican Prison
Bruce Beresford-Redman was charged with murder after the body of his spouse, Monica, was found naked and beaten in a sewer drain at a Cancun resort in 2010. But he maintains his innocence as he awaits a verdict in a Mexican prison.
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What Burns Within Us: Five Stories About Fire
Here are five pieces on fire-eaters, firefighters, fire-walkers and fire-growers.
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How Ronald Reagan Changed Bruce Springsteen’s Politics
How Born in the U.S.A. transformed Bruce Springsteen himself from a relatively apolitical performer from an avowedly working-class background to a passionate advocate for the rights of the disenfranchised— all thanks to Ronald Reagan. In 1984, President Reagan was running for his second term. Early on, his team had decided that the president’s core supporters […]
