Taming the Wild
The search for the genetic distinction that allows certain animals, humans included, to be domesticated.
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The Secrets of Sleep
We know we need it, but we don’t know why.
Blues Cruise
A dispatch from The National Review’s post-election cruise.
A Thing or Two About Twins
The search for what makes identical twins different.
The Definitive Oral History of the Lobster Roll
Murky origins. Feuding chefs. How the lobster roll went national.
Michael Flynn, General Chaos
A profile, months in the making, of now-former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
The Nuclear Tourist
Visiting the site of the Chernobyl meltdown.
First Australians
An Aboriginal community’s attempt to maintain a 50,000-year-old way of life.
In the Shadow of Wounded Knee
How the Oglala Lakota healed from a massacre.
Murdering the Impossible
A profile of Reinhold Messner, the greatest mountain climber of all time.
The Tunnels of Gaza
Life and death in an underground economy.
Restless Genes
How the compulsion to explore is coded in the human genome.
Why Do Many Reasonable People Doubt Science?
Trying to make sense our current age of disbelief.
Till Murder Do Us Part
A nasty divorce ends in murder and national notoriety.
"Fuck That Gator!"
A family defends the life of a man who died and became a national punchline.
Superman Comes to the Supermarket
On JFK and the 1960 Democratic National Convention.
Nathan Thornburgh is the co-founder and co-publisher of Roads & Kingdoms.
"You have to remain committed to the kind of irrational act of producing journalism for an uncaring world. You have to want to do that so bad, that you will never not be doing that. There’s so many ways to die in this business."
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The Dogs of War
On America’s combat canines and their handlers.
Manufacturing Taste
The history of Kraft Dinner, Canada’s “de facto national dish.”
Rift in Paradise
On the battles, both between humans and animals, in Africa’s overpopulated Albertine Rift.
Unfrozen
On the autopsy of a 5,000-year-old murder victim.
What Remains: Conversations With America's Funeral Directors
In Chicago at the 130th National Funeral Directors Conference.
In Nothing We Trust
The infuriating tale of Muncie, Indiana: When public institutions fail.
Hog Wild
“It’s 7:30 a.m., and already the congressman and I are covered in blood.”
Why Can't America Have Great Trains?
On the failures of Amtrak.
