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  • Untier Of Knots

    Andrew Sullivan, The Dish | February 09, 2015

    What is the meaning of Pope Francis?

    You don't have to be a believer to recognize a moment of grace...

  • NYC's Plan For Free, Citywide Wi-Fi

    Alex Marshall, Governing.com | February 08, 2015

    Private companies are paying the city $500 million to transform old pay phones into high-speec Internet hotspots...

  • Harper Lee Lawyer Offers More Details On Discovery Of New Book

    Alexandra Alter and Serge F. Kovaleski, The New York Times | February 08, 2015

    One morning late last summer, Tonja B. Carter was doing some legal work for her prized client, Harper Lee, when she found herself thumbing through an old manuscript...

  • SC State To Hold Commemorative Orangeburg Massacre Events

    SC State University | February 08, 2015

    On February 8, 1968, after thgree nights of escalating racial tension...three students were killed and 28 others injured when S.C. Highway Patrolmen opened fire on a crowd of unarmed protesters...

  • The Trip Treatment

    Michael Pollan, The New Yorker | February 03, 2015

    Research into psychedelics, shut down for decades, is now yielding exciting results...

  • Being Black In 1950s America

    Jordan G. Teicher, Slate | February 03, 2015

    Gordon Parks hadn't been to his hometown, Fort Scott, Kansas, in more than 20 years when he returned there in 1950 as a photojournalist on assigment for Life magazine...

  • A Comics Scholar Draws A New One Of His Own

    George Gene Gustines, The New York Times Books Review | February 03, 2015

    Scott McCloud's new graphic novel is The Sculptor...

  • A Gorgeous Look At Some Of The Oldest Trees On Earth

    David Rosenberg | January 30, 2015

    Beth Moon's father made an impression on her when he told stories about his childhood learning the names of birds, trees, and flowers...

  • The Mormon Church's Gay Rights Charade

    Samantha Allen, The Daily Beast | January 28, 2015

    Here’s a simple algebra equation to describe what it’s like to grow up in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Take the year, subtract 20, and that’s the year it really is inside the Mormon gerontocracy...

  • A Note To My Readers

    Andrew Sullivan, The Dish | January 29, 2015

    I want to let you know I've decided to stop blogging in the near future...