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Many, Many Souls on Ice
Will Steger called it the biggest coincidence of his life when, during his historic 1986 dogsled expedition to the North Pole, his team...
Laura Billings Coleman
Mar 13 min read


Free Willy: The Denouement
My old friend Keiko the killer whale is the topic of a new Serial Productions podcast exploring the ambitious effort to reintroduce the...
Laura Billings Coleman
Nov 15, 20242 min read


My Unsentimental Tutee
Going to vote always reminds me of my favorite ESL student who was not nearly as impressed by democracy as I thought she should be. She's...
Laura Billings Coleman
Nov 9, 20243 min read


Cook, Cook, He's Our Man
Fifty-five years have passed since Frederick Cook–polar explorer, former Leavenworth inmate–stepped onto that great ice floe in the sky,...
Laura Billings Coleman
Jun 30, 20141 min read


Without Wellstone
The Washington Post October 27, 2002 Sunday Final Edition ST. PAUL As soon as the news of the plane crash flashed across TV screens at...
Laura Billings Coleman
Oct 22, 20134 min read


Maternity leave down the toilet
The official reason I took a four-month break from filing this column was so I could spend some quality time taking care of my third son,...
Laura Billings Coleman
May 16, 20103 min read
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