On the Rebound
Timeless stories from our 173-year archive handpicked to add context to the news of the day.
Arizona Republicans Bring Back 1864 Abortion Ban
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The story of a struggling single mother, from the year the original law was passed: “I didn't tell you that the story was written with the view of obtaining food and clothing for myself and baby...you may say that, circumstanced as I am, I should not attempt the part of an author; that I should seek a livelihood by other means. What means? I ask beseechingly. What can I do?”
Read “Why I Wrote It” by Louise W. Barker
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Alexandria Neason's Letter from Arizona, on the effects of state divestment from public education.
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Rebecca Solnit explores the American history of the few controlling the many: “In its eagerness to return the house to its original size, the Republican Party eventually began to dismantle the edifice itself, overriding any efforts to make it more spacious and secure.”
Read “Tyranny of the Minority”
O.J. Simpson Dies at 76
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Lewis Lapham discusses the infamous trial and the implications of fame.
An NCAA First: Women's Championship Viewership Beats Men's
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An accounting of just how much revenue a star college basketball player can bring to a campus.
Read “Play Money” by Gregg Leslie
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Karl Taro Greenfeld on coaching his daughter's basketball team.
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Darcy Frey reports from a Coney Island community where “the possibility of transcendence through basketball is an article of faith.”
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How far women's sports have come in a century.
Read “Women and the Sport Business” by John Roberts Tunis
Ramadan Ends with Eid al-Fitr
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A nineteenth-century travelogue of important Islamic sites of pilgrimage, from Medina to Mecca.
Read “The Holy Places of Islam”
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“My relationship to the state—observed through exposure to its policies and encounters with its representatives—is affected in all sorts of ways by my being an immigrant, a woman, an Arab, and a Muslim.”
Read “Bright Stars” by Laila Lalami