At The Trace, Casey Parks tells the story of a Mississippi father seeking justice after learning a faulty rifle is responsible for the death of his younger son.

Compromise and political reform only take you so far; sometimes you need to shake the whole system.

Finally telling the story of the women who were raped and murdered along Oregon’s Highway 20.

At Vanity Fair, film critic K. Austin Collins explores the shaky “true story” of Green Book, the film by Peter Farrelly starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali.

Laurie Penny spends four days on a boat confronting the archetypal story of “man vs. blockchain.”

They tried every deterrent, including forced relocation, but Herschel the sea lion and his posse returned year after year to enjoy the free steelhead salmon buffet in Puget Sound.

Is that not how the saying goes? Someone tell Amazon.

Talking about male bulimia.

“This is the other thing about Phish: you can be just as earnest and dorky as you want to be.”

“The longer these kids stayed there, the further behind they were.”

Officer Stephen Mader got fired for deciding not to shoot someone, and if that doesn’t say a lot about the problems with police culture in the U.S., I don’t know what to tell you.

Here’s what voter suppression looked like in Alabama in the middle of the 20th century.

“I just think it’s lonelier without him in the world.”

In 2018, we’re inured to stories of a powerful men taking advantage of girls and getting away with it, but Jeffrey Epstein’s story still manages to horrify.

How the Arizona State Parks and Trails Director got fired for violating the Arizona Antiquities Act.

“I stepped forward into a darkness that I’m still trying to find my way out of more than 40 years later.”

Maybe with Creed II, a black actor will get the Oscar nod instead of the one white guy.

“All you needed to do,” Springsteen says, “was to risk being your true self.” We ignore our demons at our peril.

New York’s court system aids and abets predatory lenders who prey on small business owners.

While science labors to comprehend the variety and volume of insects on earth, both are declining with disturbing speed, and the ecological consequences are troubling.

How do you hold down the fort when the fort is on fire?

One single mother’s journey to construct a sense of self that’s true to herself, not to other people.

How do you retire from a gang?

“On Vancouver Island, karst researchers hustle to save one of Earth’s most underappreciated—and fragile—ecosystems: an ecosystem hidden in plain sight.”

I love bagels, but not as as much as Lloyd Squires loves bagels.

Link Wray is best known for his rock instrumentals, but in the early 1970s, he and his brothers recorded three albums in a chicken shack that sound like nothing else in his massive oeuvre.

Can anyone truly fully recover from witnessing — and losing loved ones — in a school shooting?

“But who gets to impose those rules and who becomes subject to them can be decisions tainted with sexism and racism and transphobia and homophobia. “

Bread: it was so terrible, right? Thank goodness the tech industry finally iterated on it so we can make a decent piece of toast after 6,000 years.

It seems like America is made up of two broad groups who don’t agree on anything — maybe it’s time for a trial separation.