Investigating Hate
Inside New York City’s task force on bias.
Harper's
In Praise of Idleness
An argument for working less.
Wellness Cures
Can hospitals learn to better treat Deaf patients?
Horseman, Pass By
Glory, grief, and the race for the Triple Crown.
The Sicario: A Juárez Hit Man Speaks
The author travels to Mexico to meet a retired assassin and kidnapper, now himself a target of the cartels that once employed him.
As Goes the South, so Goes the Nation
“The echoing horror of slavery cuts both ways. We are often afraid to say what we know is true. The South is disaster and it is also miracle.”
The Sound of Madness
Can we treat psychosis by listening to the voices in our heads?
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.”
