The Beginning of the End of the World
A “reckless” fracking company, poisoned springs, and a family forced to buy water at Walmart.
Eliza Griswold
The Future of Coal Country
A local environmental activist fights to prepare her community for life beyond mining.
Everyone Is an Immigrant
On the Italian island Lampedusa— “politically Europe, but geographically Africa”—as a wave of African immigrants is due to arrive from Libya by boat, ruining the tourist season.
Why Is It So Difficult for Syrian Refugees to Get Into the U.S.?
More than 4 million Syrians have fled the war. 2,647 have made it to the United States.
Landays: Cries of the Pashtun Women
On the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, women express themselves through fierce short poems.
Can General Linder’s Special Operations Forces Stop the Next Terrorist Threat?
How America is trying to fight terrorism in Africa without doing any of the actual fighting.
The Heir
One of most popular Libyan figures amongst Western intellectuals and democracy advocates is… Qaddafi’s second son, Saif.
