“Palmeros are the gutsy, highly skilled farm workers who harvest your medjool dates. Now climate change, immigration raids, and a push for mechanization threaten their 6,000-year-old tradition.”
Krista Stevens
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He Was a Suspect in the Yogurt Shop Murders for Thirty Years. He Can’t Forget.
“Forrest Welborn spent decades as a suspect in the infamous Austin murders. It all but destroyed his life. This year, he was finally exonerated. So why doesn’t he feel free?”
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He Went Out on an Epic Wilderness Adventure. Only His Dogs Came Back.
“He planned a multiyear trek through rivers, forests and snow in the Canadian wilderness. Only his sled dogs returned.”
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Oh, How Lucky We Are
“Sandy West believed that embracing what we cannot understand is the pathway to enlightenment, and that time on her beloved Ossabaw was the best way to learn that lesson.”
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There’s No Place Like Group Chats
“My old friends and I have ended up scattered across different states, in different time zones, but we’ve made our own neighborhood inside the black and blue bubbles of our phones.”
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Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad?
“A lot of people seem to be realizing that knowledge work is mostly pointless. AI might give us the pleasure of finding out what happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers.”
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Hurricane Helene Washed His Wife Away From Their Mobile Home. Now New Residents Live on the Same Land.
“Residents of a riverfront trailer park have lost homes and loved ones in multiple storms. A policy gap puts mobile home residents in harm’s way again and again.”
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The 17 Minutes That Changed America
“For the briefest of windows, September 11, 2001, wasn’t yet a calamity but merely a strange accident. And that pivotal span forever altered the way we look at disasters, at the sky, and at one another.”