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Portraits of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances.

Plus: an AI raising two teenage daughters, a Soviet film sabotaged by an American engineer, and why 10 percent of us are left-handed.
Culture
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Plus: Lizzo's flop era, fighting for women's rights to divorce, and telling the story of Cuban life.
Culture
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Plus: a Harvard lawyer's bizarre kidnapping scheme, a Toronto cop whose brother ran with the mob, and Byron Bay's decades-long cover-up.
Profiles
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Plus: moms who smoke before parenting, Fishtank's unhinged reality TV, and the joy of autism.
Culture
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Plus: the Boeing 747's last flight to a desert boneyard, the end of humanity, and Nashville's accidental street historian.
Culture
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Plus: why measuring Earth's exact shape rewired science, Texas's first family of balloon racing, and the worms that suddenly forgot how to learn.
Media
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Plus: a family's 56-year domestic slave, men who lie about their height, and leaked files exposing a fast-growing White supremacist group.
Culture
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