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Eleanor Barkhorn

Eleanor Barkhorn

Features Editor

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    A “doubtful day of feast or fast.”

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    9 great first-person essays from 2015
    Criminal Justice

    Reflections on mental health, police brutality, parenting, and more.

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    Why daughters fight with their mothers
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    A Georgetown linguist analyzed hours’ worth of conversations between mothers and their adult daughters. Here’s what she found out.

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    “It most likely couldn’t be avoided”: 3 pilots on the Germanwings crash
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    Pilots talk about the overwhelming stress of flying — and how they cope.

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    How it feels to lose a loved one in a plane crash
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    What the crash of United Airlines flight 232, which happened 25 years ago this week, can teach us about MH17

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    New mothers are more educated now than they’ve ever been

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