What Is Empathy Overload

In 1978, Kathy Kleiner was asleep in her bed at the Chi Omega sorority house at…

In her new essay collection

In her new essay collection, Creep: Accusations and Confessions, Myriam Gurba confronts a wide range of…

These Women Are Fighting Back Against Honduras’s Incredibly Harsh Abortion Laws

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Back to the Age of Political Strongmen

On a hot sweaty day in Taipei in July, in front of the Presidential Office on…

Are Libraries the Future of Media?

On a cold Saturday last November I needed a place to work, and decided to head…

Tupac Shakur’s killing brought ‘10 days of hell’ to Compton. The bloodshed helped crack the case

Tupac Shakur was killed in Las Vegas, but it was in Compton — home to both…

A Texas Man’s Wealth Shielded His Abuse. Until He Hired A Hit Man

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‘We are just getting started’: the plastic-eating bacteria that could change the world

In 2001, a group of Japanese scientists made a startling discovery at a rubbish dump. In…

Life Lessons from Laura Wasser, Divorce Lawyer to the Stars

I just got back from Miami,” the Los Angeles attorney Laura Wasser said the other day,…

One Great Rock Movie Can Change the World: An Oral History of ‘School of Rock’

It was 20 years ago this month that Jack Black put on a bow tie, walked…