City of Exiles
Every month, thousands of deportees from the United States and hundreds of asylum-seekers from around the world arrive in Tijuana. Many never leave.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The Exact Same Prize" (reprint)
A Longform Fiction reprint: The complexities of a grandmother's wish to die.
Crooked Letters
Inside the NCAA’s years-long, twisting investigation into Mississippi football.
Who Gives a Puck About Sports Merch?
How the Las Vegas Golden Knights, the expansion hockey team now in the Stanley Cup Finals, built a brand from scratch.
How an Aspiring 'It' Girl Tricked New York's Party People
“Anna looked at the soul of New York and recognized that if you distract people with shiny objects, with large wads of cash, with the indicia of wealth, if you show them the money, they will be virtually unable to see anything else. And the thing was: It was so easy.”
The Curious Case of Bryan Colangelo and the Secret Twitter Account
Did the NBA executive use social media to secretly disparage his players and defend his decisions?
Trump’s Right-Hand Troll
Is Stephen Miller serious?
Caitlyn Jenner's Quest for Acceptance
The icon opens up about her mistakes, her family, and her journey to become a better person.
The Teachers’ Strike and the Democratic Revival in Oklahoma
A walkout mostly failed to secure more funding for schools, but it has spawned a movement of politically engaged Okies.
Read This Story and Get Happier
Can a college course teach us how to be happy?
How Boots Riley Infiltrated Hollywood
How the rapper smuggled his radical anticapitalism into his new film Sorry to Bother You.
Our Arab
In 1963, a Palestinian teenager was an exchange student in a rural Minnesota town. Fifty years later, he went back.
The Untold Story of the Doodler Murders
San Francisco’s forgotten serial killer.
The Fearless Cinema of Claire Denis
A profile of the filmmaker.
Daughters of the Springs
“I came to Weeki Wachee to sound the mystery of the mermaid, to find danger and sex and darkness and maybe hear my own deeps echoed back.”
Gun Violence’s Distant Echo
After school shootings, a teenager challenges the gun culture in her conservative Wyoming town.
Bhad Bhabie Isn’t Going Anywhere
Introduced to the world as an inescapable meme, Danielle Bregoli was only supposed to have 15 minutes of fame. But reborn as Bhad Bhabie, the 15-year-old rapper is letting the world know that she’s got more time on the clock.
Valley of the Ragdolls
They’re floppy, relaxed, and they come when you call them. Is the Ragdoll a genetic miracle, or just one very cool cat?
The Surge
How Texas’s decade-long border security operation has turned South Texas into one of the most heavily policed and surveilled places in the nation.
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Fiction Pick of the Week: "Ways in Which He Furnished His Apartment"
A life in objects.
Will the Fervor to Impeach Donald Trump Cause a Democratic Civil War?
Inside the cases for—and against—his removal from office.
What Happened in Vegas
The days, weeks, and months after the worst mass shooting in modern American history.
Drug Users Got Exploited. Disabled Patients Got Hurt. One Woman Benefited From It All
Jennifer Warren promised people counseling and recovery for free. When they arrived, she put them to work 16 hours a day for no pay at adult care homes for the elderly and disabled.
James Fallows, a national correspondent for The Atlantic, and Deborah Fallows, a linguist and writer, are the co-authors of Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America.
“The credo of reporting—you know, what you don’t know till you show it—that’s my 'this-I-believe.' That’s the reason I’ve stayed in this line of work for this many decades because there’s nothing more fascinating that you can do but to serially satisfy your curiosity about things. What’s it like on an aircraft carrier? What’s it like in a Chinese coalmine? What’s it like in a giant data center in Wyoming? What is it like in all of these things? And journalism gives you a structural excuse to go do those.”
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