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Elizabeth Bruenig

Elizabeth Bruenig

The Nation

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Love and Death in the Archives

Atlantic writers meditate on the twin drives of eros and thanatos. This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s...

15.02.2024 7

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Elizabeth Bruenig

Alabama Gets Ready for Its Gas Execution Experiment

After submitting Kenneth Eugene Smith to a failed lethal-injection execution in 2022, the state is now preparing to try again, this time with a novel...

22.01.2024 9

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Elizabeth Bruenig

Final Words

What death-row inmates said as they prepared for their execution The state of Texas has executed nearly 600 men and women since 1982. Most of them had...

13.12.2023 6

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Elizabeth Bruenig

Have Yourself an Early Little Christmas

Why I put my tree up before I carve the Thanksgiving turkey. All of the arguments that chestnuts should not be roasting on an open fire in the month...

14.11.2023 2

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Elizabeth Bruenig

This Halloween, Let’s Really Think About Death

Christmas, Thanksgiving, and the Fourth of July commemorate events. Halloween memorializes the occasion of death. My youngest daughter presided over a...

30.10.2023 10

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Elizabeth Bruenig

Shawn Fain’s Old-Time Religion

The president of the United Auto Workers is part of a tradition that was once far more visible in American public life: the Christian left. There’s...

24.10.2023 2

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Elizabeth Bruenig

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