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The Golden Quarter
Why the boom in scientific progress stalled.
Riding Giants
A rookie competes in the World Elephant Polo Championships.
The Meteor Farmer
On prospecting for space rocks in Kansas.
Housed
A fiction writer buys and loses a house in Oakland.
The Kingpins
Crime, drugs, and politics in Guadalajara.
Instant Detox
How to kick heroin in 24 hours.
A Prayer’s Chance
To be mentally ill in Ghana.
The Socialist Experiment
A new-society vision in Jackson, Mississippi.
The Baraboo Nazi Prom Photo Shocked The World. The City’s Response Shocked Its Residents.
“Stupid kids doing something stupid, simple as that. This is how many people in Baraboo remembered the whole ordeal to me four months later. What almost no one in town seemed interested in asking was, ‘Why were our kids stupid in this particular way?’”
Fascinated to Presume
In defense of fiction.
The Sealed City
Nine days in Wuhan.
The Driest State
How morality and geography crystalize in Arkansas.
Michael Pollan writes for The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker and is the author of nine books. His latest is How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence.
“I don’t like writing as an expert. I’m fine doing public speeches as an expert. Or writing op-ed pieces as an expert. But as a writer, it’s a killer. Nobody likes an expert. Nobody likes to be lectured at. And if you’ve read anything I’ve written, I’m kind of an idiot on page one. I am the naïve fish out of water. I’m learning though. The narrative that we always have as writers is our own education on the topic. We can recreate the process of learning that's behind the book.”
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The Town That Turned Poverty Into a Prison Sentence
In Harpersville, Alabama, a traffic violation can lead to months in jail and a never-ending stint in a work-release program – what some refer to as a modern-day debtors’ prison.
Held by the Taliban
NYT journalist David Rohde’s alternately terrifying and absurd first person account of his kidnapping en route to an interview in Southern Afghanistan and the subsequent seven months he, along with his translator and driver, spent in captivity in the tribal areas of Pakistan.
Who Killed Che?
He arrived in Bolivia in November 1966, disguised as a Uruguayan businessman. After desertions, drownings, and difficulty contacting their support group in La Paz, his small troop was surrounded the following October. The inside story of how they were found and destroyed.
Pandora’s Briefcase
In “Operation Mincemeat” a vagrant’s corpse, raided from a London morgue, washed up on a beach in Spain, setting in motion an elaborate piece of espionage that fooled Nazi intelligence. Or did it?
The King and I
Brian Windhorst was one of the first reporters to cover LeBron James. He was there in high school. There at the draft. There in Cleveland. And now he’s there in Miami, though the relationship is far from what it used to be.
Murder on Union Hill Road
In April 2016, eight family members were slain in their homes in Ohio. Nine months later, the killer or killers are still on the loose, and the town has all but forgotten the crimes.
How ‘Desus & Mero’ Conquered Late Night
“In a landscape in which black people dominate the culture but have few recognized channels to respond to it, the show, which stars two American black men, provides a venue for black authority in the mainstream.”
Inside the U.S. military's raid against its own security guards that left dozens of Afghan children dead.
In Aug. 2008, the U.S. military called in an airstrike on its own security guards in Afghanistan. Dozens of children were killed.
The Plus Side
A revolution in full-figured fashion.
Collapse
Witnessing one of deadliest landslides in American history.
Public Enemies
How social media is fueling gang activity in Chicago.
