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Sep 22, 2016
Coming of Age at a Gay Wedding in Richard Peck's The Best Man
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by Sarah Begley
Sep 22, 2016
With a Little Help, You Too Can Write a Young-Adult Novel
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by Kirsten Salyer
Sep 22, 2016
There's No Such Thing As a Selective Patriot
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by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Sep 22, 2016
Colin Kaepernick Had No Choice but to Kneel
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by John McWhorter
Sep 22, 2016
America's Unseen Social Crisis: Men Without Work
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by Nicholas Eberstadt
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Sep 22, 2016
The Secret to Joy, According to the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu
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by Kirsten Salyer
Sep 22, 2016
Claudia Rankine: Society Is 'in a State of Emergency'
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by Sarah Begley
Sep 22, 2016
Claudia Rankine, Gene Luen Yang Among 2016 MacArthur 'Geniuses'
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by Sarah Begley
Sep 21, 2016
Edward Albee Was an Icon of American Theater
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by Tracy Letts
Sep 21, 2016
How Humans Will Get to Deep Space
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by The Aspen Institute
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Sep 21, 2016
The 4 Most Important Foreign Policy Strategies for the Next President
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by Parag Khanna
Sep 21, 2016
5 Ways to Change Your Habits to Become More Successful
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by MJ Ryan
Sep 20, 2016
What Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Are Doing to Your Facebook Feed
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by Sarah Miller
Sep 20, 2016
The Bombings Across America That We've 'Forgotten'
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by Bryan Burrough
Sep 20, 2016
Five Dirty Habits to Encourage in Your Kid
by B. Brett Finlay and Marie-Claire Arrieta