It's going to be good. Margaret Atwood joined the Velsheban book club to talk about her seminal dystopian novel, The Handmaid's Tale. She reminded us that she got all the ideas for the book set in a near-future autocratic theocracy from actual history, from real things that had happened in the world and could happen again.She actually kept the newspaper clippings that she used as research when she wrote this book in 1985. And this week, there's a story out of the state of Ohio that reads like a building blo ...

teenage rls crammed inside a single building. They're scared, they're separated from their parents and without access to adequate health care. And they have no idea when they'll be released.Sounds like something out of a dystopian novel, but according to an NPR investigation, it's happening right now here in the United States. Unaccompanied pregnant migrant girls, many of whom are pregnant as the result of rape, some as young as 13, are being placed together in a facility in a small Texas border town over u ...

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