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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.

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.

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.

Bruce Wisan received one of the toughest assignments ever thrust upon an accountant: to take control of the assets (and by proxy, followers) of the polygamist Mormon breakaway sect, F.L.D.S., after their prophet, Warren Jeffs, went on the lam and their compound was raided.

On motherhood, writing, and the death of a friend.

Within the world of law enforcement, bounty hunting is something of an aberration. An accident arising from the combination of common law, frontier justice, chattel slavery, and capitalism. No other job is more American. Bounty hunting’s legality is a mishmash of confusing requirements, regulations, and certifications that vary widely by state.

A conversation between the writers Nadifa Mohamed, who left Hargeisa, and Aleksandar Hemon, who left Bosnia.

How a hacker shamed and humiliated high school girls in a small New Hampshire town, and how they helped take him down.

A little over 30 years ago, a Northern Neck fisherman went to prison for the brutal slaying of a homecoming queen and mother of two. Now, a reexamination of the case by a hard-charging UVA lawyer has turned up troubling questions.