The Unbelievable Tale of Jesus’s Wife
A supposedly ancient scrap of papyrus, which suggests that Jesus was married, has shaken the world of biblical scholarship.
Water Hazard
Revkin’s 1988 story about how human-alligator conflicts in Florida began to rise as the population in the state steadily increased and homes were built “on terrain that is transmogrified swamp.”
Fully Loaded: Inside the shadowy world of America’s 10 biggest gunmakers
Who built, and who still funds, the biggest gunmakers in America.
PNL’s World Or Nothing
A profile of a media-shy French rapping duo who are quickly becoming internationally recognized.
Interview With a Woman Who Recently Had an Abortion at 32 Weeks
When an expectant mom learned, at 31 weeks, that her fetus was “incompatible with life,” she flew to Colorado to get a shot that would start the process of a third-trimester abortion, then returned to New York to finish the delivery.
Could Eat a Horse
The phrase ‘horse meat’ elicits strong responses, from gags to cries for justice. But what really goes on in the edible equine trade? Why do people buy horse meat, and how does it taste? One journalist in Canada finds out.
Borges and $: The Parable of the Literary Master and the Coin
Thirty years ago, the world lost a great literary mind—the Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. Elizabeth Hyde Stevens revisits the financial conditions that produced this life of pure literature, finding unexpected hope in the darkest period of Borges’ forgotten past.
Off Course
“There it was, set out with cold data in the official report and with occasional colorful description in the newspaper reportage, the story of my father’s death. The story, in a way, of the beginning of my life.” A man uncovers the past of the father he never knew: a World War II pilot, James Erwin McLaughlin, who died in a crash in 1948.
In the Depths of the Digital Age
“Virginia Woolf’s serious joke that “on or about December 1910 human character changed” was a hundred years premature. Human character changed on or about December 2010, when everyone, it seemed, started carrying a smartphone.”
Room for Improvement: The Shockingly Simple, Cost-Effective Way to End Homelessness
Utah found a budget-friendly, effective way to reduce homelessness: build housing and give it to homeless people, no strings attached.
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