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Amelia Schonbek

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  • Journalist, Freelance
  • Features Editor, Hazlitt
  • None, New York Magazine, Freelance
New York
As seen in: The New York Times, Intelligencer, New York Magazine, Flipboard, Mother Jones, Vulture, The Cut, Curbed, Longreads, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting and
I write long and true. Contribute to @nymag @nytimes, @longreads, etc; edit features @hazlitt. Happiest when outdoors.
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Freedom to Homeschool at Any Cost

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By Amelia Schonbek Verified
| The Cut Verified
Photo: Justice for Raylee School had been in session at Mount Lookout Elementary for only a few weeks when Raylee Browning, a kindergartner with bright-blue eyes, arrived one morning in a wheelchair. Her family said she’d had a temper tantrum and kicked a wall, fracturing her femur. The explanation struck Carrie Ciliberti, Raylee’s gym teacher, as strange. Ciliberti knew that the femur is one of the strongest bones in the body, difficult to break.
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Why Did DHS Send a Russian Exile to Costa Rica?

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By Amelia Schonbek Verified
| Intelligencer Verified
On a rainy evening in March, a Russian man named Dimitry stumbled through the dark, looking for a hole in a fence. In a former life, Dimitry worked as a fitness trainer for cops and bureaucrats in St. Petersburg, so he figured he could jump the barrier - "Honestly, with the shape I'm in, it wouldn't be a problem." But he was less confident about landing cleanly on the jungle terrain on the other side. Better, he thought, to look for a break in the chain-link.
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Ten People on Finding Out They Have the Alzheimer’s Gene

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By Amelia Schonbek Verified
| Flipboard
Ten People on Finding Out They Have the Alzheimer’s Gene Living with the Alzheimer’s gene. In 2017, 23andMe began offering tests for the genetic risk of developing certain health conditions like celiac …
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