The King of Dreams
A Texas con artist made millions promising prisoners’ families the thing they wanted most: To bring their children home.
“We Have Fire Everywhere”
For eight hours last fall, Paradise, California, became a zone at the limits of the American imagination—and a preview of the American future.
America’s Thirst for Crime
A dispatch from CrimeCon, where families and victims of violence collide with the public’s obsession with murder.
One Day, One City, No Relief
For this story, 36 San Francisco Chronicle reporters spent a 24-hour period meeting members of San Francisco’s homeless community in the shelters, the streets, and on public transit to help paint a portrait of the city’s growing homelessness crisis. From the chronically homeless — those who have lived on the streets for more than a year — to young families struggling to get by in a city with skyrocketing rents, to students living in vans to get through school and military veterans seeking peace from their demons, this disparate group of people share a goal: to satisfy their basic needs for food, shelter, and safety on a consistent basis.
Murder in the Moroccan Mountains
What happens when a small tourist hub is suddenly made strange by violence?
How to Save a Loggerhead
Voldemort was not an amenable turtle, at first. He thrashed his right front flipper in defiance at the humans who wanted to touch him as he held his injured left flipper close to his body. He craned his head over his shoulder, his mouth open, and his eyes seemed to squint in frustration. “He was starving,” Boylan said, “and he was really pissed off.”
On Silence (or, Speak Again)
Elissa Bassist breaks her silence about everything she’s not supposed to talk about and comes out alive.
Broken Teeth and All
“Teeth. Teeth. Teeth. So many other traumas — Men. Money. Electric fences. — but always, always teeth.”
Boar Wars: How Wild Hogs Are Trashing European Cities
Come to Europe for the Grand Tour! See the Colosseum, the Eiffel Tower, the Sagrada Familia, and the newest addition, a colony of wild boars holding up traffic.
Take Me Away
For the love of Mariah Carey.
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