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"He and other peace activists came to view the contents of draft boards’ filing cabinets as no different from bombs or bullets: They were just tools tha...

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"I watched a small son get pummelled. 'That was fun,' he said flatly when it was over. Heading back to the gym, one notably silent son told me t...

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"He found himself sucked into what he terms 'the algorithmic rage loop.' And he was questioning how work like his could avoid playing into that ...

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"I come home that night empty-handed. No Yellow Bird. Not in the national libraries or in the cracked bookstores on Donceles or in the vaults of Morton ...

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"But young Gillian [Welch] cultivated another skill with great usefulness in the entertainment business: She started deflecting attention from herself w...

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"By finding the exact vocabulary for grief, I was trying to “wash” the faces of those falling in the streets just blocks away, reclaiming them from the ...

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"Cryopreservation doesn’t just preserve genetic lineages – it transforms extinction from a permanent loss into a temporary inconvenience we can choose t...

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"Ruminating on extinction, under the slanted tutelage of my child, felt like a responsible thing to do." In a new visual essay for Longreads, Elena...

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"Instead, I seek my own language. I write again into the gap, asking whoever is on the other side to be willing to cross the distance." Sarah...

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"It is not impossible to imagine a league that gradually cedes all umpiring to technology in a drive toward adjudicatory perfection." —Elizabeth D....

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