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Indexed issues, last 90 days
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Sep 27, 2026
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Latest issues

  1. Issue · Sep 27, 2026

    When Power Protects the Predator (opens the original)

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  2. Issue · Sep 22, 2026

    I Do Not Want to Be an Everything Therapist Everywhere All at Once (opens the original)

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  3. Issue · Sep 12, 2026

    Your crisis is not my emergency. (opens the original)

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  4. Issue · Sep 1, 2026

    The Child Who Learned to Hide. (opens the original)

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    The child hears for the first time: “That’s gay!” Do they even know what that word means?Everybody starts laughing out loud. The child notices something different. A few years later, he hears an adult say, “We don’t believe in that faggot shit.”The child notices that, too. Then, at school, someone calls another boy a name because he talks “funny”, he walks “differently”, or he acts like a girl. Too soft. Feminine. Zesty.The teacher may or may not intervene. They may say, “Boys will be boys”. The

  5. Issue · Aug 26, 2026

    The Rise and Fall of the MAGA Personality (opens the original)

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