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They travel America in vans and RVs stopping at Targets and Wal-Marts in search of rare soap and coveted toys to stock Amazon’s fulfillment warehouses.

The students swore they weren’t racists. A judge would decide their fate.

On the front lines of Bolsonaro’s war on the Amazon.

The California coast is disappearing under the rising sea. Our choices are grim.

Inside the fight for safe cannabis for all.

Once the bright young hope of the Latin-American left, Alan García was caught up in an epic corruption investigation.

What happened when Brooklyn’s oldest nursery school decided to become less old-fashioned? A riot among the one percent.

On the World Cup star’s relationship with her older brother, who has watched most of her games from a prison cell.

Ankle bracelets are promoted as a humane alternative to jail. But private companies charge defendants hundreds of dollars a month to wear the surveillance devices. If people can’t pay, they may end up behind bars.

Jeremy Wilson spent years crisscrossing the country and inventing new identities as a war hero, an MIT grad, a Hollywood journalist, and more.

A giant earthquake is coming to the Northwest. Unfortunately, no one knows when.

A visit to America’s leading trade show for state violence.

"Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole."

Ankle bracelets are promoted as a humane alternative to jail. But private companies charge defendants hundreds of dollars a month to wear the surveillance devices. If people can’t pay, they may end up behind bars.

A woman's trip to Scotland and her origins.

On fireworks, and the “pyros” who practice the art.

Jared Lorenzen was a star quarterback in college. He won a Super Bowl. And just like the author, he has spent his entire life fighting, and losing, a battle with his weight.

How a childhood of anger led the founder of 8chan to create one of the darkest corners of the internet.

In experiments on pig organs, scientists at Yale made a discovery that could someday challenge our understanding of what it means to die.

What one writer learned about power, real and imagined, from Trump’s “senior adviser” and son-in-law.

Is the genetically engineered chestnut tree an act of ecological restoration or a threat to wild forests?

On becoming a mom.

The black men from Pittsburgh who made up America’s original paramedic corps wanted to make history and save lives—starting with their own.