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Five Mexican fishermen head out with enough supplies for several days. They’re gone for nine months. A story of survival in the South Pacific.

How a senseless double murder in Florida exposed the rise of an organized fascist youth movement in the United States.

The epidemics of the early 21st century revealed a world unprepared, even as the risks continue to multiply. Much worse is coming.

A pre-eminent expert on large carnivores runs afoul of the enemies of the wolf.

A 23-year-old living in Chile was suddenly attacked and buried alive by her roommate. She later learned she wasn’t his first – or last – victim.

A free-ranging conversation between music writers Simon Reynolds and Greil Marcus.

A reporter encounters the echoes of family and the struggle for civil rights in Mississippi.

A month-long tour inside L.A.’s cultish world of wellness.

It’s dangerous to blame the decline of one species on a single predator. We humans like to do it anyway.

How an obscure legal document turned New York’s court system into a debt-collection machine.

As Friday’s deadline approaches, a federal employee wonders: “How am I supposed to dig out?”

A surgeon tastes viral fame via Twitter and then things get really weird.

Where words fail, there is music.

Jason Dill is rebuilding one of the coolest skate brands on the planet, one hand-cut collage at a time.

What happens when you put a classroom on wheels and park it in the poorest neighborhoods of San Francisco?

What happened to the group of bright college students who fell under the sway of a classmate’s father?

The need for a new letter on an old manual machine leads the author to the shop of Martin Tytell — repairman, historian, and high priest of typewriters.

A confrontation with masculinity gone awry.

He spent years scrimping and saving. But without a will, where’s his money going?

A profile of the songwriter.

Klamath Country, Oregon, is the perfect place to disappear–and also a very dangerous place when someone is threatening your life.

What happened when Brooklyn’s oldest nursery school decided to become less old-fashioned? A riot among the one percent.