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Twenty-five years later, the BBC investigates its own reporter.

“I know I learned to use my intelligence as a weapon to keep myself safe from racists, starting as a child, and suddenly it doesn’t feel like enough. The violence is like a puzzle with many moving parts, but the stakes are life and death.”

A diary of the author’s visit to Palestine.

The mainstream narrative is that a pop star ripped up a photo of the pope on “Saturday Night Live” and derailed her life. What if the opposite were true?

Pakistani fishing communities struggle inside the nets of bonded labor.

Deep in southwest Arkansas is a state park that charges visitors $10 to search for gems that can be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

More than 60 years after Brown v. Board of Education, New York’s schools remain separate and unequal.

A frustrated Black Lives Matter activist. A die-hard Confederate loyalist. A sheriff who won’t back down. In a place where protests are restricted and violence feels imminent, many cry: “We don’t want to die no more.”

In the ’90s, a frustrated artist in Berlin went on a crime spree—building bombs, extorting high-end stores, and styling his persona after Scrooge McDuck. He soon became a German folk hero.

Jimmy Carter pardoned Peter Yarrow for what he did to a 14-year-old girl in a D.C. hotel room in 1969. But the Peter, Paul and Mary star is accused of sexually assaulting others, too.

How a Zoom call with Tamika Catchings affirmed everything.

Korean adoptees felt isolated and alone for decades. Then Facebook brought them together.

Droplets v. aerosols.

As a diagnosis, it’s too vague to be helpful—but its rise tells us a lot about the way we work.

Gary Haase has amassed the world’s most expensive Pokémon card collection, valued at over $10 million. So why isn’t he cashing in?

On fungi.

On Black revision, repayment, and renewal.

What the sensation of uncontrollable itch and the phantom limbs of amputees can tell us about how the brain works.

Inside the race to eliminate one of nature’s biggest threats.

A group of high school students try desperately to make it through an isolated and dire year.

On the tragic flood of elder death in the wake of COVID-19.

And as time arcs and stops and speeds and slows now, I watch myself ride the agony of the death. It’s not out of resistance, exactly, but a need to inquire into both time’s speed and the callous logic, basically eugenicist, that on bad days, the rest of the world seems to hold: that she was old enough to die this way.

A century of research has demonstrated how poverty and discrimination drive disease. Can COVID push science to finally address the issue?

For nearly 17 years, the truth about the murder of Mac Dre has been one of hip-hop’s great unsolved mysteries.