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The baffling story of what happened to a newspaper empire after a businessman named Michael Ferro took over.
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Source: Bloomberg Businessweek
Published: Nov. 2, 2016
Length: 16 minutes (4000 words)
Carl's Jr., and the Thing That Happened There
"It was 1982. We were young. There was only one urinal."
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Source: Eater
Published: Nov. 2, 2016
Length: 10 minutes (2576 words)
Trump's Inconvenient Racial Truth
"Regardless of how you feel about Trump, on this one thing he is right: The Democratic Party has taken black Americans for granted. "
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Source: The New York Times
Published: Nov. 1, 2016
Length: 10 minutes (2594 words)
How America Outlawed Adolescence
At least 22 states make it a crime to disturb school in ways that teenagers are wired to do. Why did this happen?
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Source: The Atlantic
Published: Nov. 1, 2016
Length: 26 minutes (6537 words)
Seeing Stars
"It was comforting to think that when we look into the sky we’re seeing the past, since that’s where I wanted to be. " Alex Ronan on grieving for her brother Mark and finding her place in the universe.
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Source: Real Life Mag
Published: July 12, 2016
Length: 12 minutes (3204 words)
What Can and Can’t be Learned From a Book
How learning to swim at 24 led Syam Palakurthy to first-hand lessons in gentrification.
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Source: Longreads
Published: Nov. 1, 2016
Length: 12 minutes (3188 words)
Buck to the Future: Why the High-Tech Ideas of Buckminster Fuller Are Back In Vogue
He’s a forgotten hippie idol, a sage of 1960s counterculture. What can we learn from Bucky Fuller’s faith in technology?
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Source: Aeon
Published: Oct. 25, 2016
Length: 12 minutes (3049 words)
Meet the Dapper White Nationalist Who Wins Even If Trump Loses
Alt-right founder Richard Spencer aims to make racism cool again.
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Source: Mother Jones
Published: Oct. 27, 2016
Length: 20 minutes (5219 words)
Madam President: Raising the Spirit of American Radicalism
Victoria Woodhull, a former prostitute, free-love advocate, and clairvoyant (and proponent of abolition, marriage reform, and education rights) ran for President of the US -- in 1872.
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Source: The Baffler
Published: Aug. 15, 2016
Length: 12 minutes (3108 words)
Donald Trump's Companies Destroyed Emails in Defiance of Court Orders
While Donald Trump insists that Hillary Clinton should be imprisoned for destroying emails, he has routinely used stall tactics in order to erase records that courts have demanded he hand over.
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Source: Newsweek
Published: Oct. 31, 2016
Length: 12 minutes (3176 words)