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What would it take you, personally, to deny water to someone dying of thirst?

Felix Garcia, a Guatemalan immigrant, is scheduled to be deported today. This is his story.

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A formerly incarcerated writer reflects on what prison can do to a person.

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Me, myself, and Sarasota: a meditation on real and metaphorical storms.

In St. Louis, America's nuclear history creeps into the present, leaching into streams and bodies.