“We’re living in the age of assholes now.”

Struggling to go legal in the underworld of finch smuggling.

Playing tourist in the isolated nation.

Migrant workers in California and the consequences of a deliberate low-wage economy.

On the battles, both between humans and animals, in Africa’s overpopulated Albertine Rift.

Hemingway was in love with two women at once. He found the experience wrenching.

An exchange on faith and politics in America.

A study of resilience in does and other female creatures.

On a week spent immersed in right wing media.

A profile of photographer Richard Avedon from early in his career.

How a commuter college in Miami became a chess powerhouse.

An essay on PTSD.

A meditation on life in the black “upper class.”

On touring America and the culture of trailer parks in the early 1950s.

Making ends meet in Iowa City.

A journalist goes undercover in Blackwell’s Island Insane Asylum.

Life in America without dental care.

Life in Silicon Valley during the dawn of the unicorns.

Machine guns, cannons and drones in the Arizona desert.

“Those who were born in the U.S.S.R. and those born after its collapse do not share a common experience,” wrote Svetlana Alexievich, who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 2015. “It’s like they’re from different planets.”

One frosty October morning in 1991, a newborn baby boy is found inside a plastic bag in an Oslo graveyard. This is his story, in nine parts.

The whole thing began over a puddle in the driveway. Eight years later, Peter Nygard and his neighbor Louis Bacon, who own houses next to each other in paradise, have spent tens of millions in a constantly escalating legal war. Neither man spends much time on the island anymore.

The Tiwonge Chimbalanga, a transgender woman who was imprisoned four years ago in Malawi for getting engaged to a man. Pardoned and freed, she now scrapes by living in exile in South Africa.

In February 2010, a killer whale named Tilikum dragged his SeaWorld trainer into the pool and drowned her. It was the third time the orca had been involved in a death during his 27 years in captivity. This is his story.

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