Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall and Patrick Henry didn’t advocate for prosecution of a woman who probably had an abortion.
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The Christian right’s version of history paid off on abortion and guns
How Christian conservatives’ version of American history shaped the Supreme Court’s abortion and gun decisions.
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What must still be faced in the Emmett Till tragedy
The case came to symbolize the ruthless, White-dominated, social order.
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The Third Thing: Poet Donald Hall on the Secret to Lasting Love
“The encounter between two differences is an event,” French philosopher Alain Badiou wrote in his tremendous treatise on why we fall and how we stay in love. “On the basis of this event, love can start and flourish. It is the first, absolutely essential point.
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Chance, Choice, and the Avocado: The Strange Evolutionary and Creative History of Earth’s Most Nutritious Fruit
In the last week of April in 1685, in the middle of a raging naval war, the English explorer and naturalist William Dampier arrived on a small island in the Bay of Panama carpeted with claylike yellow soil.
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Bruce Springsteen on Surviving Depression and His Strategy for Living Through the Visitations of the Darkness
It starts with a low hum that adheres itself to the underbelly of the hours like another dimension. Gradually, surreptitiously, the noise swells to a bellowing bass line, until it drowns out the symphony of life. It can last for days or months or entire seasons of being.
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