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Cory Stephens

is a precariously employed machine operator in a small town north of Kansas City, Mo. He grows food on reclaimed public land and tweets from a prepaid phone.

Essays & Reviews

Commuter Riots

By Cory StephensOctober 24, 2014
The Kansas City Royals' Kauffman Stadium is in a suburban sports complex that is perfectly modernist, which is to say, perfectly designed to quash riots.
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