One woman’s lifelong crusade against Hitler’s favorite filmmaker.
Seyward Darby
The Day the War on Drugs Came to Chimayó
“On a September morning in 1999, federal agents descended on the village as part of a nationwide heroin crackdown. The bust changed nothing and everything.”
Inside the Making of the Britney Spears Musical
“After a year of seismic developments in the pop star’s real-life soap opera, a Broadway show set to her music—with a rise-up tale about a posse of princesses who become feminists—is set to debut.”
January 6 Was Practice
“Donald Trump is better positioned to subvert an election now than he was in 2020.”
The Migrant Workers Who Follow Climate Disasters
“A growing group of laborers is trailing hurricanes and wildfires the way farmworkers follow crops, contracting for big disaster-recovery firms, and facing exploitation, injury, and death.”
The American Prison System’s War on Reading
“The carceral system is aiming to both further immiserate prisoners and set up corporations like Barnes & Noble to profit from them.”
Escape from Kabul
“As the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan in August, the Sadaat family was unsure if they’d ever make it back home to Texas.”
The Humble Beginnings of Today’s Culinary Delicacies
“Many of our most revered dishes were perfected by those in need, then co-opted by the affluent. Is that populism at play, or just the abuse of power?”
The Open-Source Investigators Trying to Bring Justice to Myanmar
“They’re using pioneering digital forensics to lay the groundwork for future crimes-against-humanity trials.”
