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Read an excerpt below. We tend to think of ourselves as citizens, or at least residents, of a nation. After all, the lessons most of us encountered in school included a map of the world divided by ...

Read an excerpt below. I did not have a strong gender identity when I was small. I drew pictures and played with my large family of stuffed animals, to whom I assigned family roles. I read the ...

Each week at a church-run school in the rural south of the United States, the teacher asks a quiz question, and the student with the right answer gets ten dollars as a prize. One Friday, she asked ...

(This is an excerpt from "Clues at the Library," chapter 8 of A. Cort Sinnes' novel "The Silverado Journals, Part I: The Silverado Trail." The main character, Nick Sinclair, is trying to unravel a ...