History Is Running Backwards
Why reactionaries are taking over the world
Features
I Found It: The Best Free Restaurant Bread in America
Thirteen thousand miles. Infinite contenders. One beautiful loaf.
The Conciliator
Why did Gretchen Whitmer go soft on Trump?
Someday in Tehran
The heartbreak of hoping for a democratic Iran
The Incredible Story of the Cartel Olympics
A Mexican athlete said he was kidnapped and forced to compete for his life in a tournament of gangs. But was he actually playing a different game?
‘I’m Far Angrier’
Can Cory Booker, once the candidate of love, run for president and stay true to who he is?
The Forgotten Female Pilots of World War II
The WASPs risked their lives flying for the Army. But for decades, the U.S. government refused to recognize their military service.
The City Where Coetzee Is God
Searching for the Nobel laureate in Cape Town, the city he left behind
What 100 Million Volts Do to the Body and Mind
The odds of being struck by lightning in America in a given year are one in 1.2 million. How does the experience reorient a person’s sense of chance, of fate?
When Mentally Ill Teenagers Ask to Be Put to Death
A Dutch psychiatrist gave lethal injections to patients with mental suffering, some of them teenagers. Does that make him a hero—or something else?