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South Korean Ferry Sinking Leads to Culture Blaming and Stereotyping

Its a story that gets more tragic by the hour. The Sewol ferry, carrying 476 passengers, mostly youth from one high school in Ansan, South Korea, capsized last Wednesday while en route to Jeju Island. Shortly after the sinking, 174 passengers were rescued. More than a week later, at the time of this writing, 175

Television: Mother Lupino | TIME

Big Augie sits in the meat cooler. Augie is so suety that on a warm day the cooler is the only place he can keep his body heat down. In comes one of his hoods to report a botched heist. Augie pulls a wicked knife, slams the hood against a meathook, and threatens to make

The 16 Best True Crime Books Of All Time

It seems like everyone is obsessing over all things true crime lately from binging Making a Murderer on Netflix to tuning in to the latest S-Town podcast. But true crime has long found a home in novels, where at times reality can seem stranger than fiction.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

U.S. soldiers battle insurgents in Baqubah, Iraq, 2007. Army Captain Gates Brown saw it all during his 2006-2007 deployment to Iraq, most spent just north of Baghdad. He spoke of the good (trying to make a better life for young Iraqis), the bad (the apartness from Iraqis inherent in the way U.S. troops deployed) and

The NCAA Should Be Scared of Justice Kavanaughs Concurrence

For years, critics of the college sports business modelwhich tends to enrich schools and administrators, but not the actual playershave relished the potential of this day: a Supreme Court ruling against the NCAA. But while todays unanimous Court opinion on behalf of college athletes in NCAA v Alston is historic for momentum towards real real