Citizens Hide From Active Shooters as Alaska Is Slow to Deliver on 2019 Promise of Village Troopers
As the summer months stretched into fall, Justin Edwards would sometimes bump into the man wanted for his attempted murder.
Alison Roman Just Can’t Help Herself
A food-world star’s method and mess.
The Company Man
On Tse Chi Lop, “the Jeff Bezos of the drug trade” and ringleader of a $21-billion crime syndicate.
Inside the Fall of Kabul
Against all predictions, the Taliban took the Afghan capital in a matter of hours. This is the story of why and what came after, by a reporter and photographer who witnessed it all.
theLAnd Interview: John Rechy
In his 90th year, L.A.’s finest living writer discusses his heroes and inspirations, the anti-gay and anti-Mexican prejudices he’s weathered and the wisdom accrued over a miraculous life.
The Internet Has a Rat Poison Problem
How online sales of highly regulated, super-toxic rodenticides exploit gaps in the law and imperil wildlife.
The Long Way Home
How NFL wide receiver Demaryius Thomas lost his mother and grandmother to drug dealing, and how he plans on bringing them home.
Death of a Lobsterman
On a remote island in Maine, a group of friends thought they witnessed one man killing another with an ax. But no one was ever arrested. In a small town far out at sea, justice sometimes works a little differently.
Bros., Lecce: We Eat at The Worst Michelin Starred Restaurant, Ever
27 courses that will live on in nightmares.
“No, I Have Not Been Fired From The Goldbergs”: Jeff Garlin Responds to Talk of Misbehavior on Set
The comic answers some uncomfortable questions.
For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II
In 1936, Karp Lykov whisked his family into the Siberian wilderness to escape Bolshevik persecution. They remained there, alone, until discovered by a helicopter crew in 1978.
Emily Oster is an economist, professor, and author. Her new book is The Family Firm.
”[COVID] has been 18 months of being a person who is slightly more public, who is saying things that are somewhat more controversial, where people yell at me a lot. ... I do much less reading of the comments than I did early on because I found that eventually I just got mad and that's not a productive way to interact. And it affects how I think about what I write, and I would like what I write to be the things that I think are true, not the things I think will avoid people being angry.”
Losing a Teenage Dream
“Before I came to Hollywood, I was confidently queer. Years of mixed messages in the industry changed that.”
Did My Uncle Drown or Was He Murdered?
Mardi Fuller grew up in a world of swimming lessons and swim teams because of a mysterious death that haunted her family’s past.
Inside the One-Man Intelligence Unit That Exposed the Secrets and Atrocities of Syria's War
A profile of Eliot Higgins, whose blog, Brown Moses, has become required reading at intelligence agencies, human rights organizations, and news outlets around the world.
Rothko at the Inauguration
A story of America in three scams.
January 6 Was Practice
On the GOP and the next election.
Outside the Manson Pinkberry
On Manson bloggers, murder fandom and being a sad, dark teen.
The Accidental Revolutionary Leading Belarus’s Uprising
How Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya came to challenge her country’s dictatorship.
Loving Lies
Stephen Glass, the most notorious fraud in journalism, decided he would live by one simple rule: Always tell the truth. Then he broke that rule.
The Abortion I Didn’t Have
“I never thought about ending my pregnancy. Instead, at 19, I erased the future I had imagined for myself.”
China’s Queer Internet Is Being Erased
LGBTQI groups found rare freedoms online, but this year, many were shut by censors. It feels like slowly being sanded down, said one member.
Well I Guess This Is Growing Up
Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus got cancer—and then accidentally shared his diagnosis with the public over social media. Turns out getting sick renewed his faith, healed his old friendships, and reminded him what makes life worth living.
Can We Move Our Forests in Time to Save Them?
Trees have always migrated to survive. But now they need our help to avoid climate catastrophe.
Sacrifice
An eccentric monk’s singular scrap cathedral reveals the chaos and genius of his mind.
