How the ‘good guy with a gun’ became a deadly American fantasy
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Desperation and broken trust when schools restrain students or lock them in rooms
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The Army ignored her warnings about a dangerous colleague. Then he set her on fire.
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Gun violence has sharply declined in California's Bay Area. What happened?
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New York is one step closer to becoming first state to ban cat declawing
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Henry Montgomery Paved the Way for Other Juvenile Lifers to Go Free. Now 72, He May Never Get the Same Chance.
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These millennials got new roommates. They’re nuns
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How the elderly lose their rights: Guardians can sell the assets and control the lives of senior citizens without their consent—and reap a profit from it
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Political confessional: I think private schools should be banned
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Gender-segregated swim hours create hot water in some city pools
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Get rid of (paper) junk mail | No Sweat Tech
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The Permian Basin is booming with oil. But at what cost to West Texans?
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A generation is learning how to strike: An interview with Isra Hirsi
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Lawyers for Noah’s Ark theme park are suing its insurance company for rain damage
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Here comes the neighborhood: Many US cities are booming -- and experiencing housing crunches as a result. Here's a look at two cities that tried to do something about it.
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People are moving to smaller cities in search of affordable houses that don't exist
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Coming of age in cohousing: Growing up communally brings exposure to the world of adults—and lessons in interdependence
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Archiving grief five years after the Isla Vista attacks
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Men have no friends and women bear the burden
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Who begs to go to prison? California jail inmates
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Washington becomes first US state to legalise human composting
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California teachers pay for their own substitutes during extended sick leave
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The loneliness problem in LA starts with traffic. Could it end with a walk?
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‘Fairbnb’ wants to be the unproblematic alternative to Airbnb
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Gunmakers are profiting from toy replicas that can get kids killed
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Asylum seekers are being “disappeared” in private Louisiana jails
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Truly progressive policies to support stable, affordable rental housing for all are a golden political opportunity
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How does a rural Colorado county with three people per square mile send thirty students to an Ivy League institution?
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The teacher shortage is real, large and growing, and worse than we thought (part 1)
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Affordable housing crisis: Why are US cities struggling?
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The American Dream is killing us
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It’s time to stop referring to maternity leave as “generous”
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People in Alabama prisons are shackled to buckets for days on end
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Poor neighborhoods make the best investments
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This is what it sounds like hiding in a dark classroom during a school shooting
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One out of every 11,600 people in San Francisco is a billionaire
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An Alabama “ISIS bride” wants to come home. Can we forgive her horrifying social media posts?
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At home with the embattled owner of the Flintstone house
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My childhood in a cult
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I’m a North Carolina public school teacher. Here’s why I’m walking out today.
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Why have America's Black farmers disappeared?
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Rise in white prisoners shows prison racism goes beyond disparities
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How ‘pretendians’ undermine the rights of indigenous people
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California tried to fix its prisons. Now county jails are more deadly.
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A search for answers, a search for blame - In grieving Parkland, a fight over school discipline and the PROMISE program is ripping the community apart
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The affluent homeless: A sleeping pod, a hired desk and a handful of clothes
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How women who’ve left Turkey are helping those left behind
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Is prison necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore might change your mind.
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A dream continued in the Mississippi Delta
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We just remembered how to strike
9 votes