In 2018, Floridians voted overwhelmingly to end greyhound racing, a sport they were told was archaic and inhumane. What if they were wrong?

The role of money plays a two-sided role in Borges’ artistic life. On one side of the coin’s face, Borges was blessed with the most privileged, ideal life for a burgeoning literary genius. Educated in Europe, raised by his father to become a serious writer, Borges devoted his entire life to literature. He did not take a full-time job for nearly 40 years. But on the coin’s reverse side, we see that young Georgie Borges did not actually write his great fictions until after his family lost their money.

A trans activist from El Salvador who has helped countless trans migrant women fight for asylum in the U.S. finds asylum for herself.

When a writer’s husband became violent, her career threatened to vanish along with her safety.

How acute childhood trauma infects and compromises relationships later in life.

An unlikely Army wife tries to come to terms with her husband’s calling.

When a brain injury leads to a personality change and then prison time, a neuroscientist wonders if his brother could have been saved.

In 1971, an unlikely activist sued to overturn Iowa’s ban on married women and mothers playing school sports. She just wanted to play.

What’s at stake in the fight over development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge? A caribou herd, and a culture that relies on it.

She keeps watch over one of the largest databases of missing persons in the country. For Meaghan Good, the disappeared are still out here, you just have to know where to look.

When you’re an American in a country that treats you as if you were not.

How did a tenure-track professor wind up selling his plasma? A story about debt.

“Fuck everything, I thought. Bring on the cascading interventions. And they came.”