Laura Smith

Laura Smith

Laura Smith

Managing Editor @Timeline_Now. Bylines @nyt @slate @guardian @motherjones Based in Oakland. Nonfiction book, The Art of Vanishing (Penguin/Viking, 2018).

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Laura Smith in Timeline

Nov 7, 2017 · 5 min read

This doctor pioneered the idea of relaxing and doing nothing—to be more productive

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Laura Smith in Timeline

Mar 27, 2018 · 2 min read

This could be the most offensive baby ever

This 1991 ad sparked protests and was pulled from several magazines

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Laura Smith in Timeline

Mar 22, 2018 · 2 min read

The entire English soccer team gave the Nazi salute — for diplomacy’s sake

It was part of the British…

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Laura Smith in Timeline

Mar 21, 2018 · 2 min read

Jackie Robinson was once humiliated and court-martialed for sitting next to a black woman people thought was white

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