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'THIS IS A COLLECT CALL from a correctional institution,' says the robotic female voice at the other end of the line. After a moment of confusion, I realize it must [...]

IT WAS A CHILLY December morning when I got to the gates of Angola prison, and I was nervous as I waited to be admitted. To begin with, nothing looked [...]

THERE'S A CERTAIN AGE at which you cease to regard your own death as a distant hypothetical and start to view it as a coming event. For me, it was [...]

LIKE MOST PEOPLE whose quality of life depends upon the fluctuations of an IRA, 401(k), 403(b), or other acronym-soup retirement account, I was born long before such things existed. It's [...]

I began needing drugs to stay alive one day in the early 1990s, though I did not realize it at the time. I was still a decade away from officially [...]

The commercial begins with a voice-over asking, 'What do you think cars will be running on in the future?' 'Grass, leaves, trees, garbage,' suggests a soccer mom standing on a [...]

KENNEY TRENTADUE was driving a 1986 Chevy pickup when he was pulled over at the Mexican border on his way home to San Diego on June 10, 1995. He was [...]

'THE ROAD IS ONE SUCCESSION OF DUST, RUTS, PITS, AND HOLES.' So wrote Dwight D. Eisenhower, then a young lieutenant colonel, in November 1919, after heading out on a cross-country [...]

THE STATELY RUSSELL SENATE Office Building stands at one corner of a domestic Green Zone, just northeast of the Capitol building at the intersection of Delaware and Constitution avenues. In [...]

The Heritage Foundation, which celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary beginning next month, has grown into one of the largest and most successful advocates for conservative thinking in Washington. From its unadorned, [...]

Viewed from a low-flying plane as it skips across the mountains, California's North Coast looks like some strange and terrible war zone. Stretches of untouched, prehistoric forest speed by--and then, [...]