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  • A Rape On Campus

    Sabrina Rubin Erdely, Rolling Stone | December 01, 2014

    Jackie was just starting her freshman year at the University of Virginia when she was brutally assaulted by seven men at a frat party. When she tried to hold them accountable, a whole new kind of abuse began...

  • Horace Poolaw's Kiowa Nation

    Amy Connors, The New Yorker | November 30, 2014

    For more than fifty years, Horace Monroe Poolaw, a Kiowa American Indian, dedicated himself to documenting the lives of members of his tribe in southern Oklahoma...

  • A Massacre In The Family

    Michael Allen, The Wall Street Journal | November 30, 2014

    As dawn broke over the eastern Colorado prairie on Nov. 29, 1864, a hastily assembled regiment of volunteer U.S. cavalrymen approached their target: a peaceful village of Cheyenne and Arapaho wintering on Sand Creek.

    Somewhere in the ranks rode my great-great-grandfather William M. Allen...

  • A High-Stepping Thanksgiving

    Michael Cavna, The Washington Post | November 30, 2014

    Ten years ago this very week, my wife, Amy, and I were about to celebrate our first Thanksgiving as a married couple...

  • When G.M. Was Google

    Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker | November 26, 2014

    The art of the corporate devotional...

  • The Lyndon Johnson Tapes: Richard Nixon's 'Treason'

    David Taylor, BBC News | November 24, 2014

    Declassified tapes of President Lyndon Johnson's telephone calls provide a fresh insight into his world. Among the revelations - he planned a dramatic entry into the 1968 Democratic Convention to re-join the presidential race. And he caught Richard Nixon sabotaging the Vietnam peace talks... but said nothing...

  • The Horrific Sand Creek Massacre Will Be Forgotten No More

    Tony Horwitz, Smithsonian Magazine | November 24, 2014

    The opening of a national historic site in Colorado helps restore to public memory one of the worst atrocities ever perpetuated on Native Americans...

  • The Many Lives Of Artist David Hockney

    William O'Connor | November 23, 2014

    The artist has achieved what often seems impossible -- to stay relevant throughout his entire career. His secret: not being afraid to change with the times...

  • In A Shift, Obama Extends U.S. Role In Afghan Combat

    Mark Mazzetti and Eric Schmitt, The New York Times | November 22, 2014

    President Obama decided in recent weeks to authorize a more expansive mission for the military in Afghanistan in 2015 than originally planned, a move that ensures American troops will have a direct role in fighting in the war-ravaged country for at least another year...

  • Mike Nichols, Celebrated Director, Dies At 83

    Bruce Weber, The New York Times | November 20, 2014

    Mike Nichols, one of America’s most celebrated directors, whose long, protean résumé of critic- and crowd-pleasing work earned him adulation both on Broadway and in Hollywood, died on Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 83...