“How girls around the world were coerced into decades of gruelling service to the secretive Catholic group.”
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Ice Cream, Alone and with Others
“I buy ice cream because a household should have it, the way my grandmother bought wine.”
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Unburying the Remains of the Third Reich
“As the German right ascends, the nation is still grappling with its fascist past — and how to handle its remains.”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Showcasing stories from Megan O’Grady, Alexander Sammon, Alaina Demopoulos, Blair Braverman, and Jack Crosbie.
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Rebuilding Myself After Brain Injury
“What does it mean to be a writer when my words have vanished?”
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I Tried to Toughen Up My Son. Things Didn’t Go as Planned.
“A trip to the Badlands with my 8-year old offered lessons in boyhood — and manhood.”
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Chimes at Midnight
“It’s been an idea for over three decades. How did the clock that will run for 10,000 years become a reality?”
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My Time Machine
“The rules of historians are clear: put things in context, be dispassionate, and most of all, never say ‘we’ when you talk about the past.”
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Joshua Tree’s Celebrity Rattlesnake Wrangler Wants to Change How You See Reptiles
“Danielle Wall’s first encounter with a rattlesnake “wasn’t that scary,” she said. Now the reptiles are her passion.”
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‘We’re Living in a Nightmare:’ Inside the Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town
“Ultimately, Granbury is just one canary of several in the proverbial mine.”
