The Government Won’t Let Me Watch Them Kill Bison, so I’m Suing
One man’s quest to witness the “Bison Cull” in Yellowstone National Park.
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Joseph Kony's Long Walk To, and From, Hell
The Ugandan rebel Lord’s Resistance Army, drawn mostly from kidnapped children, has proved as elusive as it is barbaric.
Business Is Booming
Relative to the total national income, American corporations are making more money than they have since 1947. The connection behind soaring profits and stagnant unemployment.
How an Editor Allegedly Used Vice Canada to Recruit Drug Mules
Music editor Yaroslav Pastukhov drew young journalists and artists into a transnational cocaine-smuggling ring.
Inside Palmer Luckey’s Bid to Build A Border Wall
How the Oculus founder, along with ex-Palantir executives, plan to reinvent national security, starting with Trump’s agenda.
How Anthony Fauci Became America’s Doctor
A profile of the doctor who has run the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for 36 years.
Roberto Ferdman is a correspondent at VICE News. He and his colleagues at VICE News Tonight won the George Polk Award for Television Reporting for their coverage of the killing of Breonna Taylor and the investigations that followed.
This is part four in a week-long series of conversations with winners of this year's George Polk Awards in Journalism.
The Undefeated Champions of Defeat City
A Little League season in Camden, New Jersey, where the murder rate is 17 times the national average.
Scout's Honor
A former Eagle Scout attends the National Boy Scout Jamboree, aka Jambo, held at a brand-new, $100 million scouting wonderland called The Summit.
Journalistic Standards in Reporting of the Te'o Hoax: Q&A with Deadspin's Tommy Craggs
A lesson in ethics.
Back on the Trail
A profile of former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford, who is running for office four years after his affair with an Argentine journalist became national news.
What Happened at Brian Holloway's House?
Searching for the real reason why a bunch of kids partying at the empty home of an NFL player became a national story.
Far From Home
On the foreign workers of Dubai, who now make up 90 percent of the city’s population.
Opium Wars
Stuck between the Taliban and the U.S. Military, Afghanistan’s farmers risk their lives both when they grow, and when they refuse to grow, fields of poppies.
The Greatest Paper That Ever Died
“Radically brilliant. Absurdly ahead of its time. Ridiculously poorly planned.” An oral history of the National Sports Daily.
Moscow: Opulent, Overwhelming, and Pulsing With Power
It’s the “City of the Big Automobile,” raw and beautiful at once.
Remember This
Inside the minds of two people, one with the world’s best memory and one with the world’s worst.
All The Dirt That’s Fit To Print
How the National Enquirer became a 2010 Pulitzer contender without straying from its roots as a supermarket tabloid.
Tuesdays with Saddam
The diary of a Scranton, PA National Guardsmen tasked with guarding the highest profile prisoner in U.S history: a surprisingly amiable Saddam Hussein.
Are We Losing the Grand Canyon?
On a 650-mile trek, two adventurers faced danger and hardship—and saw how development could spoil an American icon.
The Big Meltdown
A report from Antartica, where the ecosystem is changing so fast scientists have no idea what will come next.
Tristan Ahtone is the former Indigenous Affairs editor at High Country News and is currently the editor-in-chief at The Texas Observer. His High Country News article “Land-Grab Universities,” co-authored with Robert Lee, won the 2021 George Polk Award for Education Reporting.
This is the first in a week-long series of conversations with winners of this year's George Polk Awards in Journalism.
Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah is an essayist. Her 2017 GQ piece “A Most American Terrorist: The Making of Dylann Roof” won the National Magazine Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
“I remember feeling like ‘you’re playing chess with evil, and you gotta win.’ Because this is the most terrible thing I’d ever seen. And I was so mad. I still get so mad. Words aren’t enough. I’m angry about it. I can’t do anything to Dylann Roof, physically, so this is what I could do.”
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Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change and The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, is a staff writer at The New Yorker.
“I still nurse the idea in my heart of hearts that something you write, that there’s some key to this all. We’re all looking for the skeleton key that’s going to unlock it, and people will go, ‘Oh, that’s why we have to do something!’ I don’t want to say that I completely dispensed with that. I think that’s what motivates most journalists—this information is going to somehow make a difference. On the other hand, I have dispensed a lot of that. Now we’re so deep into all of this. The more you know about climate change and the numbers involved and the scale involved of what we need to do to really mitigate this problem, you know that we’re moving in absolutely the wrong direction. It’s not like we’re moving slowly, we’re moving in the wrong direction. It’s very hard to say anything I write is going to turn this battleship around.”
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Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah has written for The Believer, The LA Review of Books, Transition and The Paris Review. "If He Hollers Let Him Go," her essay on Dave Chappelle, was a 2014 National Magazine Award finalist.
"So the stakes are high. I’m not just writing this to write. I’m writing because I think there’s something I need to say. And there’s something that needs to be said. ... What I hope is that a young kid or an older person will see that you have choices, that you don't have to accept what people hand to you. That you have control."
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