The Sound of Madness
Can we treat psychosis by listening to the voices in our heads?
Harper's
In Praise of Idleness
An argument for working less.
The Pain Refugees
What we get wrong about the opioid crisis.
If These Walls Could Talk
The strange history of border fortifications.
Within Reach
The transgender community fights for health care.
The Newlyweds
A young couple, their warring families, and the risks of marrying for love in India.
“I am Here Only for Working”
Conversations with the petroleum brotherhood in the UAE.
Disaster Aversion
The quest to control hurricanes.
Best Article Sex Religion Travel
A Pilgrimage of Sin: Booze, Bombs, and Hookers in Islamic Thailand
A travelogue through the contradiction-rich and predominantly Muslim Southern Thailand.
The Weekly Package
In Cuba, hand-delivered hard drives bring the web into people’s homes.
The Rise of the Valkyries
The women of the alt-right.
Eat, Memory
“The last time I ate real food, actually chewed and swallowed, was six years ago.”
Occupied Territory
An essay on power.
Who Owns Black Pain?
On race and risk in American culture.
Where Health Care Won't Go
A tuberculosis crisis in the rural South.
The Master of the Murder Castle
On H.H. Holmes “an old hand at corpse manipulation and insurance fraud,” who built a house of death in 1890s Chicago.
The Golden Touch
Attending the two-day-long “Crap$ 101” course, where aspiring craps players learn the Golden Touch system of betting, visualize dice tosses, and pursue the elusive “controlled throw.”
Snowden's Box
A personal account of the human network behind the leak.
A Prayer’s Chance
To be mentally ill in Ghana.
The Paranoid Style in American Politics
“American politics has often been an arena for angry minds.”
Burn After Reading
The story of The Anarchist Cookbook and why its creator, William Powell, regrets writing the book.
The March on Everywhere
The ragged glory of female activism.
Family Values
Mapping the global spread of antigay ideology.
Bounty Hunters
A war on wolves in Utah.
Little Things
On the outsized pleasures of the very small.
