Apart from the noose, this is an everyday story of modern America
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Comment is free: Gary Younge: The racial tensions which flared in a small southern town have laid bare the bias infecting the nation's justice system.
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Reading this article means you're on firmer footing than most Americans.
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Outside of New York, however, Americans seem to have adjusted to a Ânew normal,Â two Times/CBS News polls suggest.
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Even as the turns of its narrative and the contours of its characters are recognizable, very little about âEastern Promisesâ feels predictable or secondhand.
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The illustrator Norman Rockwell has often been mocked for creating an America that never was and never will be. But Kevin Rivoli, a photojournalist in upstate New York, will tell you thatâs just not true.
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Sometimes truly American virtues arise in outlaws who -- by dint of heroic but questionable endeavors -- display the mettle of the national character.
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Events of the day entangled many of us in an emotional lost and found.
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Paranoia, frustration, fear and even rage: not the typical emotions Americans experience when exercising their otherwise satisfying civic duty in the voting booth.
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Just as the PhD crowd emerge with different interpretations of today's economy, everyday Americans battling to balance the checkbook hold diverse opinions about where things stand now and in the future.
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As a nation, we have a serious problem. Weâve got some pretty big issues, and ultimately the recent foolish actions of quite a few have resulted in an extremely unnescessary tragedy.
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Americans are using the ultimate punishment less and less. But that doesn't mean it's on the way out.
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Variety - (Variety) &#151; OK, I ADMIT IT: LIKE MANY Americans, I have occasionally taken refuge in the Laci Peterson story, especially as dissected every-which-way by scrappy cablers. The crime was horrific, and for the families involved tragic, but the characters, the setting, the circumstances were all so mundane as to be weirdly comforting in a world beset by Evil with a capital E.
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Townspeople had a hard time squaring an unsavory past with their wholesome self-image.
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Grand lessons from grand larceny: An inspiring tale for today's youth.
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Headlines can tell you both more -- and less -- than they intend.
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There was a wet start to jolt the American senses, but it proved harmless.
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These days, the surprise  with Stephen King is not the story itself. Like so many others,  this one is about a group of ordinary people, mostly strangers,  who are thrown together and then forced to defend themselves  against some demon force that threatens them with horrific  deaths.