Our Pandemic Summer
“The fight against the coronavirus won’t be over when the U.S. reopens. Here’s how the nation must prepare itself.”
The Shark and the Shrimpers
“A well-known attorney helped land a $2 billion settlement for Gulf Coast seafood-industry workers. But who was he really representing?”
How the Pandemic Will End
“The U.S. may end up with the worst COVID-19 outbreak in the industrialized world. This is how it’s going to play out.”
The Trump Presidency Is Over
It’s hard to be hopeful right now, but one Republican believes that the coronavirus crisis has already revealed Trump as a person incapable of leadership, and that the American people will demand a person who is.
The Killing of a Colorado Rancher
When Jake Millison went missing, his family said he’d skipped town. But his friends knew him better than that, and they refused to let him simply disappear.
The Lovely Hill: Where People Live Longer and Happier
Seventh-Day Adventists’ dietary philosophy has made Loma Linda, California one of the healthiest cities in the world, and it has a lot to teach the rest of the country.
You’re Likely to Get the Coronavirus
You might not know you have it, though.
History’s Largest Mining Operation Is About To Begin
“Life could appear in perfect darkness, in blistering heat and a broth of noxious compounds — an environment that would extinguish every known creature on Earth.” Life has been discovered at the deepest depths of the ocean, but is it under threat from mining?
How Roadkill Became an Environmental Disaster
The vast network of roads carved into Brazil’s sensitive ecosystems improve citizens’ quality of life, but it threatens countless species and the country’s biodiversity, few more than the giant anteater. As scientists develop the growing field of road ecology and grapple with ways to protect biodiversity, they face the larger problem: How can humans protect anything when we keep building new roads?
My Friend Mister Rogers
Tom Junod remembers his friendship with Fred Rogers 16 years after Fred’s death and considers how Fred would have responded in today’s world, filled with regular mass violence and a growing lack of civility in political discourse and protest.