A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.

A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.

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just like in that drunk driving awareness ad that used to play on TV when you were little.

1. You take Mary out for a nice drive. Disaster ensues. 2. Bit by bit, this town is killing you. 3. Two remorseless killers careen across a deser...

by Jan Stinchcomb...After the rupture your parents become great storytellers, but they only want to talk about each other. As you get older, the stories mutate into tall tales.

by Kip Knott...When I was a kid, the notion of falling into the ocean and turning into a fish that could live and breathe forever underwater became my most fervent desire, especially on those days whe...

I took the pills and slit my wrists because no one understood.

I emerge from the forest to discover I died.

I started writing this on a still and temperate evening at the end of a hot Ohio July.

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Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.

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Leading U.S. medical groups are urging people to get updated flu and COVID-19 vaccinations this fall, banding together Wednesday to issue shot guidelines — and highlight the science behind them — sayi...

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