“Traveling by thumb isn’t popular anymore. Some say it should be.”
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He Tried to Save Himself. He Killed An 11-Year-Old Instead.
“’If you’re going to classify this story in any way, the story that you classify it as is a tragedy.’”
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Filthy Matters
“Calvin Gimpelevich writes on the history and politics of public bathrooms.”
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Age, Sex, Location
Chatrooms taught me everything I needed to know about what real people were like before I had to grow up and become one of them.
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The Babies Kept in a Mysterious Los Angeles Mansion
“A wealthy couple obtained dozens of children through surrogates. Did they want a family, or something else?”
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‘It’s Like a War Zone’: What Happened When Portland Decriminalized Fentanyl
“Drug overdoses killed some 87,000 Americans over a 12-month period ending in September 2024 — more lives lost than the wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq combined.”
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“To the Train Lady with Dark Brown Hair … :” Extraordinary Stories of Four Couples who Found Love via Small Ads
“Is the medium dying? What might we lose if we let it go, like a stranger rounding an airport corner?”
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The Adoption Paradox
“You could call it a life sentence, for this is the moment in which I learn that I am adopted.”
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In this Field of Orbs
“Like a good independent woman, I contain multitudes but never the ones I’ve drawn for myself.”
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Dark Matter
“Frank realized that people needed a way to talk about the messy topics often off limits in everyday conversation.”
