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Biographers, memoirists, family, friends, lovers, and lawyers weigh in.
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Never too late
My mother is going back to college at 89
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Hope for Guatemala, Redemption for the United States
A troubled nation’s democracy is reborn. This time, America is on the right side.
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Why I resigned from Penn Press (or was I fired?)
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My hillbilly elegy
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How to think globally
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Is your coffee shop a third place?
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I was an antivaxxer
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Officially: Woman Owned Small Business
It's called "preferential procurement" and I'm now all in favor ;-)
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The American Lake District
Years ago I came from London to a part of western Massachusetts called “The Berkshires.” I had never heard of it, and had trouble pronouncing it…
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T S Eliot's typewriter and desk
Analog thinking for the way we live now
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Our Second Freedom Day
Today is Juneteenth in the United States, a new federal holiday
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More about religion's dark side
And the surprising history of the US anti-abortion movement
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Pull up a chair - if you can find one
The loneliness epidemic shouldn't be a surprise
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When religion turns to the dark side
The extreme-right gang members who pray for Fox News
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