Seyward Darby

The stray thoughts of a scattered reader.

On the eve of America’s Bicentennial, a mysterious illness terrifies the country and sends disease detectives racing the clock to find answers.

What the Democratic Party could learn from first-term Congresswoman Katie Porter.

Missing Serie A, pasta, and friendship.

A fatal overdose, a stunning coincidence, and a mother’s long quest to heal.

How people without an address are stripped of their basic rights—an excerpt from The Address Book.

“The U.S. may end up with the worst COVID-19 outbreak in the industrialized world. This is how it’s going to play out.”

“Many people mistook the low growl of the churning earth for a nuclear bomb.” An excerpt from THIS IS CHANCE! 

Seven years into an economic crisis, mothers and fathers have been forced to go abroad in search of work, leaving hundreds of thousands of children in the hands of relatives, friends — and sometimes, one another.

What you see in the aftermath of California’s fires.