Converging in a tense section of Huntsville: A white police officer fresh from de-escalation training, a troubled black woman with a gun, and a crowd with cellphones ready to record.

African-Americans are 75 percent more likely than others to live near facilities that produce hazardous waste. Can a grass-roots environmental-justice movement make a difference?

Watching Florida government on the state and local level is like watching two parents bring an alcoholic home after he got kicked out of rehab and deciding that the best course of action is leaving him with $5,000 in an apartment up the street from a dive bar and then going to Cancun for the week. It was on the calendar already, there wasn’t any choice, he looked very healthy at the time!

Sounding a warning on pesticides.

How do you tell the world you are grieving? In my case, it was a year-long Twitter thread about finding the things that made me feel better.

On the epidemic of deaths in jails.

Notes on Beirut’s broken sewage system.

‘Florida and Ohio, man,’ the barista at the local café said to my husband, when he asked about the tourist trade. ‘People here at least acknowledge that it’s real. But people from Florida and Ohio don’t even seem to think it’s happening.’ Having lived in both places, I believe him: I have long had a theory that the surrealism that has overtaken the political landscape in America can be traced back to the poisoned ground of Ohio Facebook.

How a July 4th meal exposes the coronavirus risk for thousands of US food workers.

After years of outsourcing, many essential staff work for the NHS without receiving its benefits. In one London hospital, the fight is on for a better deal.

On generosity, selfishness, and organ donation.

Here’s what’s become of them.

At 37, Brian Wallach was diagnosed with the fatal disease. So he tapped a lifetime of connections to give help and hope to fellow sufferers—while grappling with his own mortality.

What kinds of space are we willing to live and work in now?

Eighteen hours inside one COVID ward, observing what it takes to care for the sickest patients.

Life and death aboard the Zaandam cruise ship as it was denied a port by country after country.

Why didn’t we?

And the Black Lives Matter movement could be the vaccine the country needs

In an Arkansas jail with one of the America’s largest coronavirus outbreaks, prison terms become death sentences.

On a newfound appreciation for the stroll.

The producer behind nearly everything Drake does and the multiple sclerosis that has claimed significant portions of his brain.

Tatiana Angulo came to the U.S. legally and was trying to do everything right. Then came the coronavirus.

George Floyd’s murder is a brutal reminder that the entire legal edifice—from slavery to mass incarceration—was designed to break down black people meticulously. This isn’t accidental.

But for heaven’s sake, the best-selling author, unapologetic cusser, and fifth-generation Texan would rather not be called that.

The resilience of Marga Griesbach, 92, who made it through the Holocaust, and set off for a cruise around the world in February.