Patna Roughcuts
Old India and new, viewed through the prism of the writer’s hometown.
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Tangled Up in Indigo
The writer’s obsession with a genus of snake known as “indigo.”
Relentless
The sheriff of Putnam County, Georgia, finally meets a case he can’t solve.
Killing the Colorado
An investigation into why the West is running out of water.
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Holy Crop
The labyrinth of policies that reward Arizona farmers for growing cotton, which uses six times as much water as lettuce and 60 percent more than wheat.
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The ‘Water Witch’
The woman who found the water to keep Las Vegas growing, for better or worse.
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Use It or Lose It
How a century-old water deal is encouraging waste and worsening the drought.
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End of the Miracle Machines
How the achievement of moving water comes at an enormous cost to the environment.
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Less Than Zero
Ground water and surface water stores are interconnected. But we count them twice.
The Precious Ordinary
Faulkner, a small writing shed, and Salida, Colorado: a profile of novelist Kent Haruf.
Go Ask Alice
On the mysteries of the man behind Alice in Wonderland.
Harry Devert Took a Wrong Turn in Mexico
The last trip of a dedicated wanderer.
What Would Gabby Do?
On the post-shooting life of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
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Homeless in America
A breakdown of the early 80s homeless epidemic.
Stalking Hinckley
The psych hospital life of John Hinckley Jr., Ronald Reagan’s would-be assassin.
If I Die Young
A year in the life of an oxycodone addict.
The Xinjiang Procedure
A doctor reveals widespread organ harvesting of prisoners in China.
A Missouri Town's Sweet Dreams Turn Sour
How the town of Moberly, population 14,000, got conned.
Aches on a Plane
On the attempted hijacking of a FedEx flight by a FedEx employee.
Let the Robot Drive
The autonomous car of the future is here:
I was briefly nervous when Urmson first took his hands off the wheel and a synthy woman’s voice announced coolly, “Autodrive.” But after a few minutes, the idea of a computer-driven car seemed much less terrifying than the panorama of indecision, BlackBerry-fumbling, rule-flouting, and other vagaries of the humans around us—including the weaving driver who struggles to film us as he passes.
Invisible Lives
A Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of group homes for the retarded in Washington, D.C.
The Morning-After Pill: A Well-Kept Secret
"Look, people's lives are people's lives, and some of them can't cope or be as organized as some of us might like. But it's only in the area of sex that we get involved in the ethics of promoting risk-taking, the idea that we should withhold information or devices because we don't want people to need them. Would you make the same argument about cholesterol drugs? Saying, If we give people a drug that will reduce cholesterol, they won't be as likely to exercise and eat properly like they really should?"
Absent Things as if They Are Present
A history of erasure as literature.
Disarming Viktor Bout
A profile of the world’s most notorious weapons trafficker.
Travels in London's Sewers
Joining the water company’s “flushermen” to tour London’s sewers.
Art for Everybody
On the empire built by “Painter of Light” Thomas Kinkade.
Being Blanche
The author of Truly Tasteless Jokes unmasks herself.
The Anchor
A profile of Univision’s Jorge Ramos.
S/He
On the difficult, “god-like” decisions faced by parents of transgender children.
Until Proven Innocent
The anatomy of a wrongful conviction in Texas.
