Nina Li Coomes reckons with the quandary of citizenship and the meaning of home.

In the story of one Mexican-American woman’s life, we can see the whole tragic story of the US-Mexico border’s transformation from a simple chain-link fence to a humanitarian crisis.

The winners of the Pulitzer Prize have been announced.

The death of an iconic California glacier signals the loss of one scientist’s work, the end of an epoch, and possibly the beginning of a new era of mass extinction.

Like so many of our lofty ideals, the “American Work Ethic” is actually two different standards — one for the wealthy and one for the poor — with two different interpretations of what work looks like.

In “An American Summer,” journalist Alex Kotlowitz tries to report on gun deaths on Chicago’s South Side with the same attention to survivors, anniversaries, and aftershocks that is paid to mass shootings.

Less than 8 percent of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s inductees are women. Time for it to step up and induct an all-female class in 2020.

“Not a single person was killed on the day of the rioting. But the following month, May, would conclude with 41 homicides — the most the city had experienced in a month since the 1970s.”

When Google Maps’ data renamed an African American neighborhood, it opened up residents to the looming forces of gentrification.

What’s the difference between Howard Stern and Tucker Carlson? There isn’t really one.

Your systems will not protect you.

Black women face outsized threats if Roe v. Wade is overturned.

A list of longreads to make sense of ‘Leaving Neverland.’

Asking for a friend called Facebook.

In light of recent events in crisis-ridden Venezuela, its last vertebrate paleontologist puts together key pieces of the baffling puzzle that the country has become in the past couple of decades.

“You couldn’t have a particular friendship with a man, because you might end up being homosexual. And you couldn’t have a friendship with a woman, because you might end up falling in love.”

When a refugee flees to another country and claims asylum, she is, in effect, petitioning the state to listen to her story.

The classic “Bystander Effect” blames a lack of intervention on diffusion of responsibility. That doesn’t fly anymore.

On Lampedusa, history is never far from the islanders’ thoughts, and they are preoccupied by its contradictions. Is Lampedusa a stop on a long journey, or is it a graveyard? Does every fence need a hole in it?

The ambitious radio personality created his own form of expression, called “word jazz,” to properly accomodate his musical voice and artistic ambitions.

Recent books by economists who hope to “save capitalism” dismiss popular ideas as “just politics.” But why assume the popular is the enemy of the good?

Personal assistant? Start-up founder? Professional long-lost sister? No, Southern Baptist pastor.

Activist and author Robin Marty says the biggest threat facing women in a post-Roe America would be arrest, not death.

By using avatars, Facebook, fake websites, and fake news, new private intelligence firms staffed by Israeli intelligence personnel are waging wars on perception to alter targeted groups’ beliefs and behavior. In their story for The New Yorker, Adam Entous and Ronan Farrow profile one firm called Psy-Group to delve deep into this disturbing frontier, which one Israeli intelligence […]

There’s no doubt that Atlantic City is going under. The only question left is: Can an entire city donate its body to science?

“The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude,” wrote George Orwell in 1946, and it still stands.

A little-known city law has educators figuring out how to talk to eighth and tenth grade students about the history of Chicago police abuse.

“His brother, he assumed, was in the island’s detention facility, waiting to be sent to Athens with hundreds of other migrants. Days turned into weeks. Every time Javed tried Masood’s phone, the call went straight to voicemail. After a month passed with no word, it dawned on Javed that his brother was missing.”

When we hear “sexual abuse” we think “women and girls.” But Hollywood’s boy actors are suffering in a different way.

By 2030, Chicago’s Black population will have decreased by half a million people in 50 years.