The lie that made me. How I learned the horrifying truth about my biological father.
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The airport: A story of the fall of Kabul
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The elaborate con that tricked dozens into working for a fake design agency
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The JFK QAnon Cult in Dallas is somehow getting weirder
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In 1965, Teté-Michel Kpomassie left his Togo homeland for a new life in Greenland; the first African man to set foot there
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My parents collect cans for a living
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How purity culture messed up most of the men I know
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I was stuck on a side project for five years. Here’s how I finished it.
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Finnish teacher Ilona Taimela secretly taught IS children in Syrian camps by text through the Lifelong Learning Foundation
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He declined the FBI’s offer to become an informant. Then his life was ruined.
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I spent forty-four years studying retirement. Then I retired.
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I left poverty after writing 'Maid.' But poverty never left me
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Last year I started reading a physical newspaper
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Jony Ive on what he misses most about Steve Jobs
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How Tourette's syndrome impacts my life
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Ian Manuel, survivor of excessive child punishment, tells his story
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The last time I got into an internet argument
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Kristen Roupenian’s viral story draws specific details from my own life. I’ve spent the years since it published wondering: How did she know?
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From child refugee to politician – Suldaan Said Ahmed, whose family fled the civil war in Somalia, is intent on driving out racism in Finland
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'Coercion and rape': Investigating my yoga school
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What it’s like to be cancelled
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A letter to my mother — Just in case
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Life at disaster's edge: What it means to start over - again and again
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The truth about my son
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Why I’ve tracked every single piece of clothing I’ve worn for three years
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After working at Google, I’ll never let myself love a job again
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Two women gave birth on the same day in a place called Come By Chance. They didn’t know each other, and never would. Half a century later, their children made a shocking discovery
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Considering the silence of teenage boys in the wake of my son's traumatic injury
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How I survived a Chinese ‘reeducation’ camp for Uighurs
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Crying in H Mart: Sobbing near the dry goods, I ask myself, “Am I even Korean anymore if there’s no one left in my life to call and ask which brand of seaweed we used to buy?"
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My family’s slave
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I was a cable guy. I saw the worst of America.
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'I could show you stuff you wouldn’t believe:' Gravediggers speak out about horrifying conditions
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What I learned about male desire in a sex doll factory
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I built a tiny home office… then I lost my job
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Living in Sri Lanka during the end of the civil war, I saw how life goes on, surrounded by death
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A desperate rescue: A father's heartbreaking attempt to save his family from a raging fire
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My mother and my motherland - Jiayang Fan on the struggles of growing up as a poor immigrant, and how her desperate attempt to protect her hospital-bound mother was repurposed as Chinese propaganda
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Back to the land - Alice Driver writes about her father, a potter, and his ongoing project of building his own tomb as his final creative act
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How does it feel living in a crypt? Impressions of one year later.
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We quit our jobs to build a cabin—everything went wrong
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Three stories of people fired after being accused of racism
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Why this woman chooses to live in a ghost town
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I was a teenage conspiracy theorist: Want to know why wild conspiracism can be so irresistible? Ask a fourteen-year-old girl
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My teenage rebellion was fundamentalist Christianity
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The day the pirates came
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Why I’m learning more with distance learning than I do in school
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It's been surreal to watch friends, family and the broader public thrust so suddenly into a world I have inhabited for years: figuring out how to navigate Centrelink
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What it’s like to isolate with your girlfriend and her other boyfriend
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When your barber assumes you’re a racist too
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