“As a proponent of transparency, especially one who stands in opposition to the demonization of feeling, I can’t—I won’t—use the word anymore.”
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Following the North Star
Shaheen Pasha explores how the trauma of a loved one’s incarceration unravels her carefully planned-out existence, and sets her on a new, unexpected path to find meaning in the meaningless.
Posted inNonfiction
Snapshot of Canada: An Accidental Reading List
An incomplete portrait of a nation emerges from a stash of old print magazines.
Posted inNonfiction
25 Movies and the Magazine Stories That Inspired Them
A selection of 25 successful article-to-film adaptations that made it all the way to the box office.
Posted inCrime, Nonfiction, Quotes
You’re On Death Row, You’ve Asked to Die, But the State Won’t Kill You
Despite their hard-stance bluster, death penalty states rarely impose the ultimate sentence, even if you’re the prisoner and you ask them to.
Posted inCrime, Current Events, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
Sorry, But Drug-Induced Homicide Laws Aren’t Going to Solve Our Opioid Crisis
Another ineffective technique has been added to the ineffective war on drugs: Drug-induced homicide charges.
Posted inStory
The Final Five Percent
If traumatic brain injuries can impact the parts of the brain responsible for personality, judgment, and impulse control, maybe injury should be a mitigating factor in criminal trials — but one neuroscientist discovers that assigning crime a biological basis creates more issues than it solves.
Posted inBundyville The Remnant, Crime, Culture, Current Events, investigations, Nonfiction, Story
Bundyville: The Remnant, Chapter Four: The Preacher and the Politician
If America collapses, some see that as an opportunity to reboot society. They say they have God on their side.
Posted inCurrent Events, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Caught Between Borders
Closed borders and closed minds are trapping African LGBTI asylum seekers in hostile countries.
Posted inCurrent Events, History, Nonfiction, Quotes
Arkansas’ Capital Punishment Spree: ‘It Ain’t Gonna Work on Some of Them’
The state prepares to kill seven men this month with a soon-to-expire supply of lethal injection drugs.
