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Insight | A writer’s take on coping with depression

Peter Boyd/October 10, 2016February 2, 2018

“Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it…

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The Lost Brother | Uncovering a family past

Conor Purcell/October 6, 2016February 2, 2018

The long history of Irish emigration to the United States is mixed. In 1928 two of my grandmother’s brothers left…

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Idea | Why kids can learn more from tales of fantasy than realism

Deena Skolnick Weisberg/October 1, 2016October 5, 2016

Children have a lot of learning to do. Arguably, this is the purpose of childhood: to provide children with protected…

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