Can Guaranteed Income Help Americans Escape Poverty?
A pilot program in Mississippi offers a glimpse of the possibilities.
The Worst-Case Scenario
Converging in a tense section of Huntsville: A white police officer fresh from de-escalation training, a troubled black woman with a gun, and a crowd with cellphones ready to record.
Lured to America — Then Trapped
Visas for farmworkers have surged under Trump. But the program has subjected some workers to horrific abuse.
Seyward Darby is the editor-in-chief of The Atavist Magazine and the author of Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism.
“The most enlightening thing I learned in working on this book ultimately was that when we think of hate we think of animosity. Hate means I do not like someone or I do not like something. I deplore it. I despise it. But hate as a movement is actually a lot more like any social movement where it’s providing something to its supporters, members, acolytes that they were seeking but didn’t necessarily know where they were going to find it. So it could be camaraderie, it could be power, it could be purpose, in some cases it could be money. There’s something terrifyingly mundane about that.”
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‘Nobody Is Going to Believe You’
The Bohemian Rhapsody director Bryan Singer has been trailed by accusations of sexual misconduct for 20 years. Here, his alleged victims tell their stories.
A Heist on Time and a Half: Inside the Most Corrupt Squad in the Nation
“If you could put your own crew together and rob the biggest drug dealer you know, who would that drug dealer be?”
The Refinery Next Door
African-Americans are 75 percent more likely than others to live near facilities that produce hazardous waste. Can a grass-roots environmental-justice movement make a difference?
The Hidden Queer History Behind "A League of Their Own"
The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League did everything it could to keep lesbians off the diamond. Seventy-five years later, its gay stars are finally opening up.
Trouble at the "Lamborghini" of Border Walls
The privately funded effort in danger of falling down.
My Midlife Crisis as a Russian Sailor
A trip into the Arctic.
A Most American Terrorist: The Making of Dylann Roof
“I decided that if he would not tell us his story, then I would.”
Waking Up Is Violent but Easy. The Problem Is Everything After That
Watching Florida government on the state and local level is like watching two parents bring an alcoholic home after he got kicked out of rehab and deciding that the best course of action is leaving him with $5,000 in an apartment up the street from a dive bar and then going to Cancun for the week. It was on the calendar already, there wasn’t any choice, he looked very healthy at the time!
The Cold War Bunker That Became Home to a Dark-Web Empire
An eccentric Dutchman began living in a giant underground facility built by the German military—and ran a server farm beloved by cybercriminals.
Myths Over Miami
God has fled, avenging angels hide out in the Everglades, and more “secret stories” passed down by homeless kids in Miami shelters.
Where Will Everyone Go?
For the first time, data scientists have modeled how climate refugees might move across international borders. This is what they found.
They Agreed to Meet Their Mother’s Killer. Then Tragedy Struck Again.
A Florida family opted for restorative justice over the death penalty for the man who murdered their mom. What happened next made them question the very meaning of justice.
Consider the Roadkill
There are myriad arguments for and against eating roadkill. Can they all be true at the same time?
What’s Going on Inside the Fearsome Thunderstorms of Córdoba Province?
Scientists are studying the extreme weather in northern Argentina to see how it works—and what it can tell us about the monster storms in our future.
How Ben & Jerry’s Perfected the Delicate Recipe for Corporate Activism
Other companies tried to align themselves with the Black Lives Matter protests and failed. The Vermont creamery kept doing what it’s always done.
A Brutal Lynching. An Indifferent Police Force. A 34-Year Wait for Justice.
How the murder of Timothy Coggins was finally solved.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Boys to Men"
A man's relationship to help and addictions.
The Promised Land
A trans activist from El Salvador who has helped countless trans migrant women fight for asylum in the U.S. finds asylum for herself.
Underworld
Five hundred feet below ground with Ohio coal miners.
I followed them underground, home, to church, to the strip club where they drink and gossip and taunt and jab and worry about one another. I listened while they worried about Smitty, the loner of the group, who had just ordered himself a mail-order woman.
Raquel Willis, the former executive editor of Out, is an activist, journalist, and writer.
Guest host Patrice Peck is a freelance journalist and writes the Coronavirus News for Black Folks newsletter.
“To my peers, I would just say that we have to rethink our idea of leadership. Rethink our idea of storytelling. As the media, we shouldn’t be seeing ourselves as the owners and the gatekeepers of people’s stories. We actually need to be democratizing this experience—sharing the tools of storytelling with other folks. Folks are hungry to tell their own stories and may not always have the tools.”
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The Teenagers at the End of the World
Young climate activists like Jamie Margolin are building a movement while growing up — planning mass protests from childhood bedrooms and during school.
