"An encounter in the Christ-haunted South."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
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Highlighting stories by Melanie Challenger, Eve Livingston, M.R. O’Connor, Gordon Peake, and Blair Braverman.
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• Carolyn Wells
What Happens When Your Abuser Kills Himself?
"These women's abusive partners died by suicide. They felt both relief and grief. The NHS didn't know what to do with them."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
Supplemental Journey
"Fishing for trouble in the Antarctic."
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
Deskilling the Body
"We are, moment by moment, doing less sensing, navigating, remembering, walking, choosing, and attending."
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• Seyward Darby
How Tree Rings Challenged the Myth of American Wilderness
By studying fire scars in ancient wood, many scientists have become convinced that Indigenous people transformed North America long before European colonizers arrived. M.R. O’Connor spends time with dendrochronologists, who study tree rings, and other experts to understand what they’re learning: Anthropologist Omer Stewart, who began documenting Native American burning practices in the nineteen-thirties . […]
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• Daniel Barnum
Beyond the Glass
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
We’re Reporters, Not Teachers. We Were Able to Start Private Schools Anyway.
"Our reporting has shown how easily people—some with questionable backgrounds—have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hurdles to open a school are so low, could we do it?"
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
The Kids Who Identify as Animals
"A rising subculture of kids says they don’t feel entirely human. Here’s what their parents are learning to do with that."
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• Seyward Darby
In Trump’s America, the Death Penalty Has Been Resurrected
"As prisoners in Louisiana, we watch on as executions return to death row."
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• James Whorton Jr.
Where the Forest Went
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• Krista Stevens
He Went Out on an Epic Wilderness Adventure. Only His Dogs Came Back.
"He planned a multiyear trek through rivers, forests and snow in the Canadian wilderness. Only his sled dogs returned."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
Up a Creek
"Nature writing after everyone stopped paying attention."
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Stories on the color orange, the data center rush, a local hero, the AI labour takeover, and a boy dinner subreddit.
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• Carolyn Wells
Inside the Subreddit Where Men Share Their Dinners—And Their Most Intimate Feelings
"A months-old subreddit called r/BoyDinnerDiares has drawn over 4 million users and become a place for men to spill their guts. Why there and why now?"
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• Seyward Darby
The People of Utah vs. Kevin O’Leary
"Mr. Wonderful wanted to build the world’s largest data center. The neighbors had other ideas."
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• Seyward Darby
The True Cost of Rape in America
"The horrific story of Jane Doe and the Cornell Seven has spurred nationwide outrage and revived contentious debates around prevention and education. But one question is still going unasked: Who really pays after a sexual assault?"
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
She Died at the San Diego Border. A Surveillance Ccamera Was in Plain Sight.
"In Southern California’s Otay Mountain Wilderness, the federal surveillance network seems unavoidable. But year after year, migrant deaths persist."
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
How AI Replaced Me
"An edtech worker's account of what got left behind."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
Orange Era
"First it was a fire, then it was a color, and before too long it became a regime unto itself."
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• Carolyn Wells
‘The Eels Were Climbing Out of the Water to Die ’: Why Did Every Fish in This Idyllic Lake Perish Overnight?
"Furnace Brook in East Sussex was home to carp, tench, bream, roach and trout—and 15 trailer-loads had to be buried."
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
The Bizarre, Murky History of Soviet-Born Tetris
The beloved video game Tetris has a fascinating, complicated history. While the Tetris Company (TTC) claims exclusive rights to the geometric pieces at the heart of the game, known as tetrominoes, history shows that the Russian engineer and game designer duo behind TTC did not, in fact, own them. In this excerpt of Soviet Blocks: […]
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The Unforeseen Something
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
Toadstools and Toxins
"When I found the mushroom Amanita muscaria being sold in candy wrappers, I uncovered legal loopholes, dangerous dosages and more."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
Behind His Great Novels, an Unbearable Family Secret
"The Irish author Sebastian Barry has made a career of mining his family history. But he kept one story buried."
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• Carolyn Wells
What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
"I began to do what I do — reading and writing and thinking about misogyny—because of my dismay at how girls and women are treated on campus, and at other college campuses across America."
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Recommending notable stories from Caitlin Dickerson, Marci Wilding, Tiffany Huang, Nick Paumgarten, and Chabeli Carrazana.
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
The Work
"One year spent on the independent professional wrestling circuit in the Pacific Northwest, where the only thing that’s faked is the outcome of the match."
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• Carolyn Wells
Journalist Evan Gershkovich: My 491 Days as Putin’s Political Prisoner
"Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter in Russia, thought he was meeting a source. Instead he was arrested for spying."