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"Michael Lewis on Heather Stone of the Food and Drug Administration."
Recommending stories by Brenna Ehrlich, Yiyun Li, Claire L. Evans, Nicholas Casey, and Kent Russell.
"On patrol with the Guardian Angels."
"One of the simplest, most over-studied organisms in the world is the C. elegans nematode. For 13 years, a project called OpenWorm has tried—and utterly failed—to simulate it."
"The Rev. Jeff Hood has made a career of fighting to save men the state wants to kill — and it doesn't matter if they're innocent."
"As the German right ascends, the nation is still grappling with its fascist past — and how to handle its remains."
"Fifteen teams lifted off from Switzerland in gas ballooning’s most audacious race. Three days later, two of them drifted into Belarusian airspace—but only one would survive."
"When the VFW opened a chapter inside northeastern Colorado’s Sterling Correctional Facility, the post was celebrated as a victory for prison reform nationwide. So why did it get canceled?"
For Runner’s World, David Alm profiles Sofia Camacho, a 25-year-old runner with a rocky, traumatic past who’s emerged as a trailblazer in both sports and the arts. Camacho won the New York City Marathon’s nonbinary division last year and set a new nonbinary course record by 14 minutes. Alongside this rise in the running world, Camacho […]
"How do we care for our children and the environment?"
"What urban wildlife can teach us about cognition, survival, and how to be good neighbors"
"He was always helping someone through something, even when he was barely holding on himself."
"In 1969, two University of Texas students who seemed destined for great things were inexplicably killed. Today their loved ones are still grieving."
I love the notion that typefaces have personalities—which Nicole Rudick discusses in this Broadcast essay—and that some fonts might actually persuade us. A few recent reads on typography warmed me up for this piece: Marcin Wichary’s essay on the use of Gorton across Manhattan and Kanya Kanchana’s reading list on typefaces. Rudick’s essay examines the […]
"A Palestinian poet chronicles the war raging around him."
"The truth is that however I choose to express myself will not live up to the weight of these facts: Vincent died, and then James died."
This week we are featuring stories from Piper French, Jordan Blumetti, Zing Tsjeng, Ryan Cantú, and Luke Winkie.
For three weeks in January, the Eaton Fire raced through the small community of Altadena, California, destroying more than 9,000 buildings and killing seventeen people. Afterward, we invited four writers, all longtime local residents, to share memories, and photographs, of what burned, and what didn’t.
"He built an empire of men addicted to watching him lose enormous sums of money. In Las Vegas, I figured out why we can’t look away."
"After decades of unchecked hazardous waste pollution, a Florida hamlet fights the developers eager to build homes there anyway."
The ways memory, history, and identity are inscribed—on skin, in silence, and through generations.
"A future where many humans are in love with bots may not be far off. Should we regard them as training grounds for healthy relationships or as nihilistic traps?"
"Empathetic, climate-conscious, vintage-loving: Bella Ramsey has plenty in common with other 21-year-olds… aside from being the star of one of the biggest TV phenomenons of all time."
"Chris Duncan’s death sentence—built on the testimony of two discredited doctors—illustrates just how faulty the system can be."
"Lessons from a queer garden."
"Matt Eich’s photobook series, 'The Invisible Yoke,' is an exorcism of the country’s demons."
"After years of having their stories told by outsiders, locals are fighting back with their own cameras and building much-needed infrastructure. But they need more support."
"The future of food is nutritious and sustainable – if we can overcome our instinctual revulsion to insects and lab-grown meat."
"Had the award-winning Times head of investigations been duped?"
"Luxury cars, mansions, a superyacht called Convict, and wined-and-dined sheriffs—a legal war is exposing the big business of extracting profits from prisoners."
"Future-proofing the American Worker"
Showcasing stories from Erika Hayasaki; A.C. Thompson, James Bandler, and Lukáš Diko; Lauren Smiley; Amanda Petrusich; and Liza Weisstuch.
"To police at the time, the killings seemed like the act of a lone gunman rather than what they were: the culmination of a coordinated recruiting effort that spanned two continents."
"The singer-songwriter talks about boygenius, the perils of love, and 'Forever Is a Feeling,' her new album."
"The cricket’s song is a story of survival—and so is mine."
"The Dublin-based Irish Pub Company has designed upwards of 2,000 pubs in more than 100 countries around the globe."
"An exquisite mix of fear and awe, pleasure and pain, the sublime stretches the imagination and reveals the limits of reason."
"In their desperate search for answers, two men are bonded by their quest to feel like themselves again."
"In a hospital in the heart of the British empire, two young patients from worlds away strike up a friendship."
"Environmental scientist Lauren E. Oakes considers how learning what seeds to plant—literal and metaphorical—can help us restore both life and Earth in the wake of profound loss."
After seven million years of evolution, walking feels as natural as breathing. But as our environments evolve, so do our ways of walking through them.
"In the Eaton Fire burn zone, fireplaces adorned with Arts and Crafts tiles are among the sole surviving relics of the town’s architectural heritage, and volunteers are on a mission to salvage them."
"Fatal crashes. A door blowout. Grounded planes. Inside the citizen-led, obsessive campaign to hold Boeing accountable and prevent the next disaster."
"An environmental chemist investigates the origins of her leukemia."
"One man journeys through the many movements—sci-fi startups, DIY donor clubs, group masturbation retreats—urgently attempting to address the 'crisis in sperm.'"
"Sisters from a convent outside Waco have repeatedly visited the prisoners—and even made them affiliates of their order. The story of a powerful spiritual alliance."
Recommending notable stories by Kelley Engelbrecht, Sam Anderson, Lindsey Liles, Jeannette Cooperman, and Claire McNear.
"Harvey Silikovitz first auditioned for ‘Jeopardy!’ in 2001. On Monday, he finally got a chance to play."
"Why do some people find certain sounds intolerable? And why has it taken so long for scientists to get even a preliminary answer?"
"Once, the red wolf roamed every Southern state. Today, only seventeen remain in the wild on a swampy peninsula in Eastern North Carolina, a number on the rise thanks to the passionate team of biologists determined to help them thrive once more."
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