Seyward Darby

A profile of a Mexican American soccer prodigy.

“In 1992, thousands of furious, drunken cops descended on City Hall—and changed New York history.”

“At Moody Bible Institute, purity culture and complementarianism have worked together to forgive abusers and punish the abused.”

“What happens when trying to escape poverty means separating from your family at 13?”

“The elegant science of turning cadavers into compost.”

“For people under guardianship, the system can be dehumanizing, dangerous, and even deadly. For the professionals—who can control hundreds of people at a time—it can be very profitable.” (This is the first installment in an investigative series.)

“I don’t control anything in the real world. But in my dollhouse, I own everything. I make the horrors happen. I am the one.”

“What the history of a gesture can tell us about Black creative power.”

“How do you survive when life as you know it is falling apart? What do you do when it seems like every institution, nearly every person in a state of more than 11 million people, and even a member of your own family doesn’t want to help you? Courtney Smith learned how.”

“In the countryside, the endless killing of civilians turned women against the occupiers who claimed to be helping them.”