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War of Nerves
Meltdown of the Phantom Snowflakes
“Are you a strong woman?” The camera crew wanted a snappy answer. We were filming a short news segment on the beach …
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Selected Salvos
Rights Make Might
As the botched chances and bitter disappointments stacked up late into the fateful night of November 8, 2016, the ceiling at …
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Online Essays
Sad Dreams of a Sanitized Heaven
There are many horrors the incoming administration promises to impose on the disadvantaged in America, and one of the cruelest is a crackdown …
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Stories
The Festival of Sadness
It was a chilly afternoon but we had come out anyway, wearing hats and jackets to prepare our float for the …
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Books
Cotton Tenants: Three Families
A rediscovered masterpiece of reporting by a literary icon and a celebrated photographer. In 1941, James Agee and Walker Evans published Let …