Jennifer Pan’s Revenge
Her parents wanted Jennifer to be successful. The pressure may have led her to plot their murder.
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The Black-White Sleep Gap
When they go to bed tonight, white people will be five times likelier to get a good night’s sleep than African-Americans.
The Transformation of David Brooks
An attempt to figure out how the Times columnist came to care more about personal morality than politics.
Can Airlines Make Money?
For decades, airlines failed to turn a profit despite having a monopoly on the sky. This year they’re expected to make billions. Here’s why.
Who Poisoned Flint, Michigan?
A writer returns home to find a toxic disaster, giant government failure, and countless children exposed to lead.
The 'Deaf' Composer Who Fooled a Nation
Mamoru Samuragochi’s story turned out to be too good to be true.
The Children of ISIS
Three siblings from Chicago ran away to become jihadis. Is it fair to try them as terrorists?
Why Are Palo Alto's Kids Killing Themselves?
How one community is struggling to understand and respond to a cluster of suicides.
The Fast Supper
On the Calorie Restriction movement, the scientifically-supported belief that the key to a very long life is to eat as little as possible.
Interview: Nora Ephron
“It takes this huge amount of will and energy for anything to happen to you.”
Virgin Galactic’s Rocket Man
The ace pilot risking his life to fulfill Richard Branson’s billion-dollar quest to make commercial space travel a reality.
A Very North Idaho Neighborhood Culture War Christmas!
How one man’s quest to spread Christmas cheer led to a miserable four-year war with his neighborhood.
Consider the Lobster
A trip to a lobster festival leads to an examination of the culinary and ethical dimensions of cooking a live, possibly sentient, creature.
The Undercover Fascist
A young British man was drawn to a white-supremacist group, until they started plotting to kill.
The Secret Formula
Could shrunken heads from the Amazon hold the key to curing cancer? One man thought so—and spent a lifetime trying to prove it.
The Jessica Simulation
The death of the woman he loved was too much to bear. Could a mysterious website allow him to speak with her once more?
Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah is an essayist. Her 2017 GQ piece “A Most American Terrorist: The Making of Dylann Roof” won the National Magazine Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
“I remember feeling like ‘you’re playing chess with evil, and you gotta win.’ Because this is the most terrible thing I’d ever seen. And I was so mad. I still get so mad. Words aren’t enough. I’m angry about it. I can’t do anything to Dylann Roof, physically, so this is what I could do.”
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Tavi Gevinson is a writer, actor, and the founder of Rookie. Her new zine is Fan Fiction.
“Stories are unstable, and memory is unstable, and identity is unstable. All of these things that I've tried to make permanent in writing, they're actually unstable. So even though it's tempting to go, Oh, that was fake, it's more like, No, it was just temporary.”
Escape from Cuba
Yasiel Puig’s journey to the Dodgers.
Old Terror, New Hearts
A trip to a Louisiana leper colony.
The Body Electric
What it’s like to be struck by lightning.
Future Shocks
On the endless quest to predict earthquakes.
Fog Count
What prison does to a person.
Cash/Consent
I was asked about labor protections for adult-film performers. I said: You have to recognize how complicated this is. The things that sex workers do to stay safe are almost always the things civilians want to pass laws to stop. Everything looks different depending on the distance from which you’re looking.
Body Language
How to tell a genderqueer story.
