The Next Golden Child
A profile of 12-year-old actress Elle Fanning, Dakota’s sister.
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The Making—and Breaking—of Marines
How the death of a Muslim recruit revealed a culture of brutality.
Why Was an Italian Graduate Student Tortured and Murdered in Egypt?
The answer may lie with the country’s powerful security agencies.
Tucker Carlson Is Sorry for Being Mean
A profile of the Fox News anchor, who started his media career as a promising magazine writer.
Young Jean Lee’s Unsafe Spaces
The first female Asian-American playwright on Broadway takes aim at identity and watches the audience squirm.
What Makes Superstar Conductor Gustavo Dudamel So Good?
The Venezuelan maestro of the Los Angeles Philharmonic conjures joy in difficult times.
Oceans 7
Pat Gallant-Charette is 68. She’s on a quest to beat marathon swimming’s globe-spanning challenge.
The Shark Attack That Changed Cape Cod Forever
Last summer, Arthur Medici went surfing off the coast of Cape Cod. He never made it back.
The New Prospectors
Every year, members of the Gold Prospectors Association of America pack up their RVs in search of adventure, friendship, and a bucketful of pay dirt.
Did Venus Williams Ever Get Her Due?
How the first Williams sister changed the course of women’s tennis.
The Movement to Bring Death Closer
Home-funeral guides believe that families can benefit from tending to—and spending time with—the bodies of their deceased.
A Billion-Dollar Scandal Turns the ‘King of Manuscripts’ Into the ‘Madoff of France’
Inside a literary Ponzi scheme.
Surviving It All
The resilience of Marga Griesbach, 92, who made it through the Holocaust, and set off for a cruise around the world in February.
The Mysterious Life of Birds Who Never Come Down
What the journey of swifts, who spend all their time in the sky, tell us about the future.
The Mister Rogers No One Saw
Fred Rogers wasn’t just a brilliant educator and a profoundly moral person. He was an uncompromising artist.
New York Is Back. Now It Has a Second Chance.
The city is beating the pandemic. Can it also recover from decades of division and neglect?
Matt Damon’s Disappearing Acts
The enduring career of the megastar no one really knows.
Raising Baby Sharks from the Dead
Biologists are rescuing baby sharks and skates from recently caught females, giving the unborn a chance at survival.
The Butcher of Havana
How a drifter from Milwaukee became the chief executioner of the Cuban Revolution—and a test case for U.S. civil rights.
Sons of Guns
The story of the 1977 Revolt at Cincinnati, and the men who changed the course of the NRA forever.
The Excavations of Pedro Almodóvar
The 72-year-old is still making movies that shock.
Jake Silverstein is editor-in-chief of Texas Monthly.
"Texas is not a frontier in the same way it was 150 years ago, but it still has a frontier mentality. And that's definitely true from a journalistic standpoint. ... You have more of a feeling that you're figuring things out for yourself. Which means that you make more mistakes, but you also have a little bit more leeway and freedom to find a certain path down here than you would if you were surrouded by other magazines and media companies."</i>
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The Endless Fall of Suge Knight
His health failing and his business in tatters, the head of Death Row Records faces murder charges that could put him away for life.
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Wesley Lowery is a correspondent for “60 in 6” from 60 Minutes. He is the author of They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement and won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for "Fatal Force," a Washington Post project covering fatal shootings by police officers.
“The police are not, in and of themselves, objective observers of things. They are political and government entities who are the literal characters in the story. They are describing the actions of people who are protesting them. They have incentives.”
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Wesley Lowery is a national reporter at the Washington Post, where he worked on the Pulitzer-winning project, "Fatal Force." His new book is They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement.
“I think that we decided at some point that either you are a journalist or you are an activist. And I identify as a journalist, to be clear, but one of the reasons I often don’t engage in that conversation—when someone throws that back at me I kind of deflect a little bit—is that I think there’s some real fallacy in there. I think that every journalist should be an activist for transparency, for accountability—certainly amongst our government, for first amendment rights. There are things that by our nature of what we do we should be extremely activist.”
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