"Navigating romance—with people or with places—is always fraught when you’re an outsider."
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
I Went to the White House Brawl and Watched the Manosphere Go Limp
"It was supposed to be an exhibition of freedom without restraint: a bombastic birthday boy, fourteen uncontrollable athletes, and a South Lawn build-out that was piss-your-pants patriotic. But what united onlookers, in the end, was the sudden realization that American machismo had hit a hard limit."
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• Wilbert L. Cooper
Black and Blue in Cleveland
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• Carolyn Wells
Melon’s Odyssey On The Black Market For Life-Saving Cat Medicine
"While Melon lay dying under my bed, I contacted the Facebook group."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
What if America Went Completely Dark?
"The power grid relies on thousands of aging, hand-built transformers. If enough fail, the blackout could last years."
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• Seyward Darby
The Children a Scientist Took Home
Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel Prize for his work on a disease in Papua New Guinea. But his biggest experiment was on the children he took from the field to the US—many of whom he sexually molested, with the knowledge and, in some cases, approval of his professional peers and colleagues: In his journals and […]
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• Carolyn Wells
The End of the European Summer
"As extreme heat overwhelms the Continent’s great cities, they are racing to transform themselves for a climate that they were never built to withstand."
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• Carolyn Wells
Where’s the Beef?
"The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn’t."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
Bad Cards
"How a $168,000 Michael Jordan rookie card rocked the $15 billion trading card industry."
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• Seyward Darby
How Anti-ICE Protesters Became Prisoners in Trump’s War on Antifa
"'We are not terrorists.'"
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• Carolyn Wells
How a Cowboy Rides When the Range is on Fire
"When wildfires approach, moving cattle to safety means managing their fear and instincts. Here’s how it’s done in B.C.’s Nicola Valley."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
There’s Something Dangerous About Sam Rockwell
"Ever since that monologue—you know the one—everyone knows who the legendary scene-stealer is. Still, his appetite for taking risks means he’ll never stop surprising us."
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• Krista Stevens
The Phone Scammers Next Door
"An ambitious young couple, a multimillion-dollar swindle and the sting that brought them down."
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• Carolyn Wells
Worm Munch Matters
"The lives that slither and scurry beneath the soil’s surface are vital for ecological health: now we can listen in to them."
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Bucking Expectations: A Conversation with Rachel Hartigan
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
G.P.S. and the Lost Art of Getting Lost
"A new book, 'Little Blue Dot,' by Katherine Dunn, raises questions about the unintended consequences of knowing where we are."
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• Carolyn Wells
The Great Romance Slump
"Why are so few young people finding love?"
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Recommending stories from Emi Nietfeld, Brendan Borrell, Boyce Upholt, Fernando Pinho, and Vann R. Newkirk II.
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• Carolyn Wells
The Ferry Boat Children
"For the children of south Mull, secondary school means leaving home age eleven. Their parents' silence was never consent."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
Thank This Retired Projectionist for Those 3 a.m. Odyssey 70-mm. Imax Showings
"A Tennessee native and longtime film projectionist who first started working in Imax theaters in the ’90s, Caldwell has become integral to Imax’s 70-mm. rollouts even as he considers himself mostly retired."
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• Seyward Darby
Whose Babies Are These?
"A Chinese man hired a Florida surrogate, then didn’t pick up his kids, sparking a custody battle that could upend the industry."
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• Seyward Darby
Rachel Aviv: Mother and Daughter
"An interview with the author of 'Strangers to Ourselves'—and now, 'You Won’t Get Free of It.'"
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• Elizabeth Blackwell
Here’s the Scoop: A Reading List on Ice Cream
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Parting Shot
"Stormy Morse lost two partners to gun suicide. Then the NRA came to collect."
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• Krista Stevens
16 Hours in an Oakland Dive Bar
"Very few Oakland establishments open before noon. Club 2101 in Dimond is one of them. For patrons, it’s a second home."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
Moment, Expand
"40 notes on Rob Reiner and Stand By Me."
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• Sam Roberts
Speaking for the Dead
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Mister Anthony
"Mister Anthony could be my grandfather, if my grandfather, a retired Memphis city bus driver, was still alive, still driving strangers from one stop to another."