One Consequences of Cannabis Legalization is Market Saturation Highlight Supply side economics is clogging the overstuffed bowl of Oregon’s booming cannabis market, and there are not enough lighters in Oregon to smoke all the product.
We Love Moms, as Long as They Have Good Insurance Highlight In the U.S., getting pregnant can be exciting, joyful, and the first step toward a lifetime of debt.
England’s National Health Service Is Suffering Growing Pains Highlight While England’s National Health Service institutes large-scale reform, the country’s understaffed, overcrowded hospitals are in crisis.
Feature Maybe We’re the Circle Feature Megan Stielstra and Nicole Piasecki talk about the shooting that changed their lives, who owns the story, and what to do with fear. Part three of a three-part series on gun violence.
Feature Maybe We Can Make a Circle Feature Nicole Piasecki writes a letter to the wife of the shooter who killed her father. Part two of a three-part series on gun violence.
Feature Here is My Heart Feature Long after the shooting at her old high school, Megan Stielstra worries about her father’s heart. Part one of a three-part series on gun violence.
What If the Price of the American Dream Is Too High? Highlight In a blistering essay, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio eviscerates an American Dream that lures migrants with the promise of opportunity, then forces them to live under constant threat.
The 2018 Pulitzer Prize Winners Reading List This year’s Pulitzer winners include Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, investigative reporting from The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the New Yorker, music from Kendrick Lamar, and more.
Protecting Your Writing Time In This Weird Time of Ours Highlight Poet Patricia Lockwood offers ideas on how to keep writing in the unstable, toxic, distracting times we live in.
Feature Coachella, Alternativo Feature Durante el tiempo que pasó en el Valle de Coachella, California, el periodista Gabriel Thompson exploró cómo las comunidades latinas de la región se han adaptado a una vida de miedos e incertidumbre durante la administración de Trump.
Feature Coachella, Underground Feature Spending time in California’s Coachella Valley, journalist Gabriel Thompson explores how the region’s Latino communities have adjusted to a life of fear and uncertainty under a Trump administration.
A Journalist Takes Stock of His Formative Years Highlight An experienced reporter looks back at the hard lessons he learned reporting from Eastern Europe during a politically tumultuous time.
Welcome to the New Transnational Paradigm Highlight The decline of national political authority requires a new transnational political system. First we have to stop denying the problem.
How Baltimore Police Abused Their Power Highlight Baltimore’s Gun Trace Task Force were celebrated for getting firearms off the street, until detectives discovered they were also robbing criminals of guns, drugs and money.
Feature Did Brian Easley Have to Die? Feature A desperate veteran, missing his disability payment, walked into a bank and took several people hostage. This is how he got there.
Feature Where Have You Hidden the Cholera? Feature In Mozambique and around the world — and throughout history — cholera outbreaks have caused riots. Why? And what does it have to do with bicycles?
The Resegregation of Charlotte’s Public Schools Highlight Charlotte, North Carolina, once embraced public school integration, but schools have become highly segregated again.
Feature Is Journalism a Form of Activism? Feature It’s time to take another look at the definition of activism and where journalism fits in.
#DeleteFacebook? It’s Not So Easy Commentary We use Facebook to access certain apps and stay in touch with distant friends and relatives. Deleting Facebook won’t stop other companies from misusing our data.
The Amateur Investigators of the American West Highlight When 66-year-old Bill Ewasko got lost near Joshua Tree National Park, the case spawned a network of amateur investigators obsessed with finding him.
Feature Uncomfortable Silences: A Walk in Myanmar Feature Now what I remember most about my guide is what he said about the Rohingya. But I walked 50 kilometers with him before he said it.
California Governor Jerry Brown Is Retiring Highlight After 40 years of public service, California Governor Jerry Brown is retiring. This is the story of his last days.
Feature Are The Teens All Right? Feature In the aftermath of the school shooting, teens from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have organized and demanded change from lawmakers. They’ve also been deeply traumatized.
It’s Time for Real Talk About Aliens Highlight No time in human history has presented clearer, more compelling evidence that something unexplained is interacting with human beings, be they aliens or UFOs.
Climate Change Is Personal for These Alaskan Women Highlight Here are the voices of the Alaskans threatened by climate change.
Trump Properties As Symbols of American Mediocrity and Lies Highlight The only thing a tourist who stays at Trump properties gets for free is a disturbing vision of America’s future.
Walking the Line in the Bekaa Valley Highlight A traveling crew of slackliners is trying to bring a moment of balance to young Syrian refugees in Lebanon.
Feature The Koch Brothers vs. God Feature The fossil fuel lobby preached its gospel in Virginia. Now, black churches are fighting back.
