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Sylvia Plath with her husband Ted Hughes in England, 1956

"Only Did What Poetry Told Us To Do:" A Portrait of Sylvia Plath On Honeymoon With Ted Hughes

Sylvia Plath was one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth cent...

Sylvia Plath was one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. In 1956, while on a Fulbright Fellowship at Cambridge University, she married the British poet Ted Hughes after a whirlwind courtship. They...

A red lightning bolt, the prominent symbol of recent protests against a Polish court's decision to effectively put a complete ban on abortion, is projected against a building in Warsaw on Oct. 30, 2020.

Poland’s Constitutional Court Has Effectively Banned Abortion, But We Will Not Stop Fighting For Our Fundamental Rights

Poland’s anti-abortion laws have always been among the most restrictive in ...

Poland’s anti-abortion laws have always been among the most restrictive in Europe. Until this week the procedure was only permitted when the pregnancy posed a threat to the woman’s life; if there was a fatal...

Worshipers inside the First Baptist Church of Williams for a Sunday service in Jacksonville, Ala., on March 1, 2020.

What Christians Should Do If Their Candidate Loses the 2020 Election

Nothing divides like politics, because nothing divides like fear. But what ...

Nothing divides like politics, because nothing divides like fear. But what exactly, in the context of our current election, are we afraid of? The answer is the same for everyone at the macro level: we...

A right-wing group gathers at Jefferson Square, the site of the Breonna Taylor memorial Louisville, Ky., on Sept. 5, 2020.

Armed Right-Wing Groups Aren’t ‘Militias’—We Need to Stop Calling Them That

Over the last month, ever since the indictment of 13 men for plotting to ki...

Over the last month, ever since the indictment of 13 men for plotting to kidnap the governor of Michigan, the word “militia” has appeared in thousands of newspaper headlines and TV news reports. The Detroit...

A child holds onto a fence in the U.S. Border Patrol Central Processing Center in McAllen, Texas, on Aug. 12, 2019.

Shakira: The Parents of 545 Children Are Missing, and the Silence Is Blaring

I am the daughter of a New Yorker who was born to Lebanese immigrants amids...

I am the daughter of a New Yorker who was born to Lebanese immigrants amidst the great economic depression of the 1930s, immigrants who, thanks to their entrée into the United States, were able to...

Sarah Silverman on Changing Hearts Before Minds (and Her New Podcast)

A version of this article was published in It's Not Just You, a weekly news...

A version of this article was published in It's Not Just You, a weekly newsletter from TIME. Subscribe here to get a weekly serving of big-hearted advice delivered to your inbox. The two people I...

'We've Built the Most Toxic Marriage Ever': Why Political Opposites in the U.S. Despise Each Other

Americans clearly do not agree about the best solutions to the country's bi...

Americans clearly do not agree about the best solutions to the country's biggest problems. But while those disagreements are fierce, they are not as strong as their feelings of distrust, dislike and disdain for people...