Longform

What it’s like to be gay in Putin’s Russia.

“It was there that Nancy and Louis fell in love not only with each other, but also with Afghanistan itself. The country was as exceptional and difficult as they were—and when it descended into chaos, they had no choice but to follow it.” [subscription required]

Ignore the barrage of violent threats and harassing messages that confront you online every day.” That’s what women are told. But these relentless messages are an assault on women’s careers, their psychological bandwidth, and their freedom to live online. We have been thinking about Internet harassment all wrong.

On a humanitarian crisis in Texas, the deadliest state in the U.S. for undocumented immigrants.

Life in your nineties.

“In less than a year, he’d lost his mother, his father, and, as he’d once and sometimes still felt Julia to be, the love of his life…”