In law school, they told me I wouldn’t be able to read anymore. That the pleasure of the text, like a lover in a non-law degree, would slowly grow opaque to me.
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An Inquiry Into Abuse
Allegations that Richard Nixon beat his wife, Pat Nixon, have circulated for decades without serious examination by the journalists who covered his presidency. It’s time to look more closely at what’s been hiding in plain view.
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The Rub of Rough Sex
Chelsea G. Summers considers the ways in which outwardly ‘progressive’ men like former Attorney General Eric Schneiderman use kink as a cover for abuse.
Posted inBooks, Current Events, Nonfiction
The Great Online School Scam
Students are performing worse than ever, but private companies are making millions.
Posted inBooks, History, Story
The Tyrant and His Enablers
How is it possible for a whole country to fall into the hands of a tyrant? According to Shakespeare, it could not happen without widespread complicity.
Posted inBooks, Current Events, History, Nonfiction, Story
Above It All: How the Court Got So Supreme
Secrecy and speechifying, collegiality and hierarchy, exceptionalism and opulence on the Supreme Court.
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Birth of a Radical
Before she followed her mentor Steve Bannon to the White House, Julia Hahn was a recent college grad from Beverly Hills who attended the liberal enclaves of Harvard-Westlake and the University of Chicago. Peter Maass attempts to unravel the mystery of what brought a 25-year-old with no distinct political leanings to become a reporter for Breitbart and a […]
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‘I Had Nothing To Do With It But Have Been Punished’: Issac Bailey On His Brother Moochie, the Murderer
Issac Bailey wants us to recognize that the families of perpetrators need just as much support as the families of victims.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Writing
Letters from Trenton
While striving to become a travel writer in the years after Watergate, Thomas Swick discovered that although writing for a newspaper was educational, there was more to be learned through romance with a foreigner.
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Letters from Trenton
While striving to become a travel writer in the years after Watergate, Thomas Swick discovered that although writing for a newspaper was educational, there was more to be learned through romance with a foreigner.
