For a decade, Diana Ramirez hadn't been able to take a book home from the San Diego Public Library. Her borrowing privileges were suspended, she was told, due to a mere $10 in late fees, an amount that had grown to $30 over the years. Ramirez…
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Dave Philipps
– Nov 30, 5:47 PM
He was limp and dusty from an explosion, conscious but barely. A far cry from the fierce, masked Islamic State fighters who once seized vast swaths of Iraq and Syria, the captive was a scraggly teenager in a tank top with limbs so thin that his…
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Molly Jong-Fast
– Dec 1, 4:59 PM
The former FBI lawyer and ongoing Trump target breaks two years of silence in this exclusive interview. And she has quite a lot to say. It's not often that you interview a subject who has no interest in being famous. But recently, I did just that…
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Elizabeth Dias
– Dec 1, 2:00 AM
ATLANTA — The pin was small, and rusted on the back. Sharon Wood had packed it away in 1973 as a relic of a battle fought and won: the image of a black coat hanger, slashed out by a red line. Then this spring, her home state, Georgia, joined…
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Annalee Newitz
– Nov 30, 12:00 PM
Social media is broken. It has poisoned the way we communicate with each other and undermined the democratic process. Many of us just want to get away from it, but we can't imagine a world without it. Though we talk about reforming and regulating…
