Barbara Bush Changed With Her Country
The former first lady was notably eager to learn about people she didn’t understand—and recognize she might have been wrong about them.
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Dolores Ochoa / AP What It's Like to Be a Prison Chaplain
Life ministering to inmates for the Oregon Department of Corrections
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Jason Reed / Reuters Spotify Lost Taylor, but It Won Barack
The president has implicitly endorsed the music-streaming service, which could go a long way for the Swedish startup.
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Charles Strawter / Flickr Straight Outta Suburbia
A rap album made Compton an icon of urban decay, but the struggles of that California town are common to inner-ring suburbs.
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Navesh Chitrakar / Reuters Jimmy Carter's Cancer Diagnosis
The former president learned of the disease after a recent surgery.
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David Ryder / Reuters How White Users Made Heroin a Public-Health Problem
In the past, when users of the drug were disproportionately black, they faced severe punishments.
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Matt York / AP How Bad Is the Damage to the Animas River?
The EPA accidentally dumped 3 million gallons of wastewater from a mine into the river in southwestern Colorado.
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Jeff Roberson / AP The U.S. Supreme Court Goes to Ferguson
An arrest on Monday highlights the importance of two recent Fourth Amendment rulings.
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Jeff Roberson / AP Another Night of Protests in Ferguson, and More Arrests
Rallies to mark the death of Michael Brown a year ago were peaceful, but the presence of an armed group called the Oath Keepers added to the tension.
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Wikimedia Commons Gone Swimmin’
How public swimming pools show you the heart of a town
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William Widmer / The Atlantic A Matter of Black Lives
Since 1980, more than 260,000 black men have been killed in America. Mitch Landrieu, the mayor of New Orleans, is on a crusade to stop the killing.
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Associated Press Reading MLK in New Zealand
More than 50 years later, the Southern Baptist preacher’s words resonate—even outside of America.
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Jeff Roberson / AP Violence in Ferguson, Missouri, and the Legacy of Michael Brown's Death
More than 50 people were arrested Monday during protests, and St. Louis County declared a state of emergency following overnight unrest.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters A Headline Worth Study in The New York Times
The man bites dog / dog bites man conundrum applied to story-framing
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters The Death and Life of Eric Garner
Eric Garner helped shape a local celebration of life, which has grown into a broader symbol of the effort against senseless, violent killing.
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AP Between the World And Me Book Club: Your Final Critical Thoughts
Readers continue to scrutinize Ta-Nehisi Coates's bestseller. Does the book present a blinkered view of black Americans? Is it actually bigoted toward whites?
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Evan Semon / Reuters A Colorado Jury Spares James Holmes' Life
The Aurora theater gunman is sentenced to life imprisonment without parole, as a national decline in capital punishment continues.
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Matt Rourke / AP The Tangled Web Pennsylvania's Attorney General Allegedly Wove
Kathleen Kane, a Democrat, was charged with leaking grand jury documents in order to embarrass a political rival, and then lying about it to another grand jury in an attempted coverup.
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Evan Vucci / AP Bill Cosby and a More Than 40-Year-Old Case
The comedian has been ordered to give sworn testimony in a lawsuit brought by a woman who says he forced her to perform a sexual act on him when she was 15.
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Patrick Semansky / AP Building a Prison-to-College Pipeline
Education Secretary Arne Duncan dismisses GOP critics of the Obama administration’s program to reduce recidivism, saying it “doesn’t take a nickel from anybody else.”
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Jim Cole / AP The Republican Road Block Ahead
The party grips with an intensifying crisis as the presidential race and mess in Congress intersect.
