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Why I put my tree up before I carve the Thanksgiving turkey.
2 months ago
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Christmas, Thanksgiving, and the Fourth of July commemorate events. Halloween memorializes the occasion of death.
3 months ago
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Christmas, Thanksgiving, and the Fourth of July commemorate events. Halloween memorializes the occasion of death.
3 months ago
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The president of the United Auto Workers is part of a tradition that was once far more visible in American public life: the Christian left.
3 months ago
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The president of the United Auto Workers is part of a tradition that was once far more visible in American public life: the Christian left.
3 months ago
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A man’s sincere jailhouse conversion met the indifference of the capital-punishment system.
6 months ago
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After a year of botched executions, the state is eager to prove that it can kill someone without incident.
6 months ago
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James Barber killed Sarah Gregory’s grandmother in 2001. What connects them now?
8 months ago
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But don’t execute them in secret, either.
9 months ago
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How America became a violent society
9 months ago
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No law and no regulation yet has been ambitious enough to solve the problem of rich and unaccountable men.
9 months ago
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If the pandemic ought to have given us anything, it should have been a more universal empathy toward the condition of illness.
10 months ago
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He saw the magnitude of the damage the Catholic Church had inflicted, and his retreat came nearest to acknowledging it.
about 1 year ago
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A Texas prisoner fought for the right to have his pastor pray over him and lay hands on him during his execution. Now his pastor reflects.
over 1 year ago
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A Florida jury will have to render a judgment only heaven can make.
over 1 year ago
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Summer in Texas is a tense, precarious time, and it always seems to build inevitably toward a catharsis that doesn’t arrive.
over 1 year ago
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He was once the weed kingpin of the Pittsburgh metro area. Now he’s serving five years in federal prison.
over 1 year ago
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Medicine has never been about certainty, but odds.
over 2 years ago