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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
"The once underground and countercultural 'rave' has fully spread to the mainstream in the form of themed pop-ups and sponsored parties. For newbies, it can be a sanitized gateway into electronic music. For true ravers, it’s more complicated."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
"Dinosaurs have become an asset class for billionaires. And the market is about as orderly and genteel as a starving T. rex."
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• Seyward Darby
"The life and death of May Pollard, 16, provides a window into the tragic effect that legislation and political rhetoric have had on trans people in America."
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
"Thanks to an assist from his sons, Mike D is set to release “Thank You,” the first new music from a member of the pioneering rap trio in 15 years."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
"Erik Giggleman was an elite Army soldier who went in search of a righteous struggle and found it in Ukraine. As his commitment deepened, his father confronted an excruciating truth: Either the conflict would end, or Erik would die fighting."
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• Seyward Darby
"Virginia Giuffre made global headlines for her fight against her sexual abusers among the wealthy elite, all detailed in a bestselling memoir. Now new questions have emerged about the private anguish she faced at home."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
"Making sense of a complicated family legacy."
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Showcasing stories from William Finnegan, Meghan Flaherty, Kulsoom Ijaz, Amy Weiss-Meyer, and Dan Werb.
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• Carolyn Wells
"The fragility and fantasy of old America."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
"The California giant has helped turn a local, seasonal treat into a worldwide refrigerator staple and marketing juggernaut."
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• Seyward Darby
"When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed by the U.S. government, they left behind two sons, ages 6 and 10. All these years later, Robby and Michael are still trying to make sense of what happened."
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• Peter Rubin
"Meeting your kids in the Forgotten Realms."
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
Dan Werb on the understated intelligence of the animals that share our cities.
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• Krista Stevens
"A post-mortem on New York City’s weed underground."
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
"How much can fans conveniently forget in order to enjoy the games? The answer, evidently, is a lot."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
"In the war on 'shrink,' big retailers are turning to one Florida outfit to study shoppers and prevent them from stealing. I went there—and saw far too much."
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
"Palestinians are defying Israeli bombings and power outages to follow soccer’s biggest tournament. But many fear the world has abandoned them."
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• Peter Rubin
“Tech titans claim the genre inspired them. But all they’ve done is graft their politics onto stories of a better future.”
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• Kyle Devine
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
"Is all the beekeeping, baking and leatherwork just escapist fantasy or the start of a radically human approach to work?"
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• Krista Stevens
"A couple of years after I began volunteering, I realized I was hell-bent on healing birds because they, too, had healed me—in more ways than one."
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• Peter Rubin
“It’s been called ‘one of the greatest cold cases of the 20th century.’ It remains unsolved. But what happened next is almost a worse crime.”
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
"Millions of songbirds in Southeast Asia are trapped and smuggled each year for keeping as pets or entering in competitions. Scientists warn that it's fueling a crisis."
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• Brendan Fitzgerald
"Did an experienced alpinist leave his girlfriend to die at the top of a mountain?"
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In this edition: Concrete memories, grief science, captive cats, relentless pain, and myth meets reality.
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• Peter Rubin
"Route 85 in California now inspires dread. Some of us remember when it was a vision of the future."
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• Krista Stevens
"Forty years after breaking away from Antarctica, the frozen colossus known as A23a died as it lived: drifting around the bottom of the globe, fascinating ardent observers, and offering scientists critical new insights about our living ocean."
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• Cheri Lucas Rowlands
"As of May 2026, you can no longer buy or sell exotic cats in British Columbia. What do we do with them all now?"
