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The sun rose this morning over a landscape forever altered by a tragedy of incomprehensible proportions. In a quiet stretch of roadway that should have been nothing more than a routine passage to educ...
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The American presidency has long been described as a “glass house,” a position that subjects its occupants to a level of relentless scrutiny that few human beings ever experience. However,...
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The mundane objects of our daily lives are often the ones we scrutinize the least. We wrap ourselves in bath towels every morning, yet few of us stop to consider the engineering behind the fabric. How...
The intersection of music, joy, and childhood innocence is usually a sanctuary, a place where the world’s harsh realities are held at bay by melody and dance. For Taylor Swift, an artist whose career ...
The sterile scent of an Intensive Care Unit is a sensory assault that lingers in the marrow of your bones long after you leave its walls. It is a suffocating mixture of antiseptic, floor wax, and the ...