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50,000 Life Coaches Can’t Be Wrong

By Genevieve Smith,

Not too long ago, there was a consensus about life coaches: the people who sought them out were suckers, and the coaches themselves were no better than con men. In…

You Rang?

By John P. Davidson,

Stranded between parking lots in downtown Denver two blocks from the state capitol, the Starkey International Institute is both a relic of the past and a portal into the alternate…

Happiness Is a Worn Gun

By Dan Baum,

In the 1943 noir thriller The Fallen Sparrow, John Garfield asks the police inspector whether his permit to carry a gun is still valid. “Good for a year,” the cop…

Tyranny of the Test

By Jeremy Miller,

A bell sounds, and students tumble out of rooms and into the gray corridors of George Washington High School. Eight a.m. lethargy has given way to the Brownian motion of the…