Journalist and public education advocate Jennifer Berkshire traveled to the heart of DeVos-land — the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty in Grand Rapids, Michigan — to learn more about Betsy DeVos and her family’s life-long attempt to dismantle the “nanny state.”
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Just One of Millions of American Immigrant Stories
This is me, just as I was about to immigrate to the United States. Before 1965, it was legal to ban immigrants based on nationality, and Asians in particular were targeted. It was actually referred to as an Asiatic Barred Zone. Then, Congress passed the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, banning discrimination on the […]
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The Olympian Who Believes He’s Always On TV
An Olympic sailor suffering from Truman Show Disorder attempts to wrest control away from the Director.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women
The Hotel of Multiple Realities
While recovering from an aneurysm, Emily Carter Roiphe discovers the hospital houses a series of alternate realms.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Sports, Story
The Olympian Who Believes He’s Always On TV
An Olympic sailor suffering from Truman Show Disorder attempts to wrest control away from the Director.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
The Hotel of Multiple Realities
While recovering from an aneurysm, Emily Carter Roiphe discovers the hospital houses a series of alternate realms.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Miracles and Mummeries: Antonin Scalia and American Religion
Catholicism and conservatism on the Supreme Court: “The Constitution that I interpret and apply,” Scalia wrote in 2002, “is not living but dead — or, as I prefer to put it, enduring.”
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What Happens Between What Seems Like All the Facts: On Interviewing Artists
Curator Michael Auping on the forty years he spent interviewing artists in their studios.
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A Chance to Rewrite History: The Women Fighters of the Tamil Tigers
How during a brutal, 25-year civil war in Sri Lanka, the Tamil Tigers failed the women soldiers who sacrificed everything to fight for a sovereign state for the Tamil minority.
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God the Gorilla
Not everyone buys into a sky-god with a long white beard, a serious and all-knowing mien, capable of rewarding good behaviour and punishing bad. But it doesn’t take much imagination to recognise that God, as worshipped in most of the world, is remarkably humanoid, widely perceived as a great, big, scary, wilful, yet nourishing and […]
