James Is a Girl
The strange life of a 16-year-old model.
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Sandra Bland Died One Year Ago
On the epidemic of deaths in jails.
Wide Awake
On the birth of a progressive protest movement under President Trump.
Missing a Beat
Millions of hearts fail each year. Why can’t we replace them?
Why Did You Throw Stones?
A diary of the author’s visit to Palestine.
What Slime Knows
“There is no hierarchy in the web of life.”
Debriefing Mike Murphy
A profile of the man who ran Jeb Bush’s $118 million super-PAC as he cleans out his office. Had Murphy been legally allowed to talk to the candidate during the election, here’s what he would have said: “What the fuck were we thinking?”
How Slavery Really Ended in America
Like hundreds of other local slaves — [they] had been pressed into service by the Confederates, compelled to build an artillery emplacement amid the dunes across the harbor. They labored beneath the banner of the 115th Virginia Militia, a blue flag bearing a motto in golden letters: “Give me liberty or give me death.”
Alexis Okeowo, a foreign correspondent, has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine and Businessweek.
“Nigeria is a deeply sexist country. It can be difficult for people to take you seriously. But that also has its benefits, because it’s very easy to disarm your subjects. If I’m interviewing people who underestimate me, I can get them to open up because they somehow think that I’m naïve or I don’t know what I’m doing. So I don’t mind if some sexist general or banker thinks I’m this young little student who doesn’t know what she’s talking about. As long as you tell me what I want to know, it’s great.”
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52 Blue
The story of the loneliest whale in the world.
New Connective Tissue: Bullet-resistant Human Skin As Art
In the film bullets approach in slow motion a series of glistening roundels, resembling condoms just taken out of their paper wrappings. Most of the bullets go right through, leaving a clean hole. But the last roundel in the film collapses slowly, wrapping itself around the bullet like a blanket on a laundry line hit by a wayward football. It is a piece of artificially bred human skin, reinforced with eight layers of transgenic spider silk, the material spiders produce to spin their webs.
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Whitewood Under Siege
The controversy-filled world of shipping pallets.
How an Organ Transplant Changed My Life
The story of a new pancreas.
Helenism
The life’s work of Cosmo editor-in-chief Helen Gurley Brown.
Free to Be
Forty years after its release, the story of “Free to Be… You and Me.”
How Do You Raise a Prodigy?
The challenges of parenting genius.
Larry Hagman's Curtain Call
A profile of the late actor.
Diving Deep into Danger
On commercial diving, the third most deadly profession.
Here's Jimmy Kimmel
A profile of the late-night host.
How to Be a Stuffed Animal
The history and meaning of taxidermy in American museums.
David Lee Roth Will Not Go Quietly
A profile of the Van Halen frontman.
Drinking and Driving and Dying
The persistent, tragic behavior of professional athletes.
Psychedelic Academe
Research into mind-altering drugs is back.
“Why Did You Shoot Me? I Was Reading a Book”
On the militarization of America’s police forces.
Special Deal
The shadowy cartel of doctors that control U.S. healthcare.
