The Washington Post

“A cash-strapped rancher, a virus-stricken meatpacker, an underpaid chef, a hungry engineer: the journey of a single burger during a pandemic.”

Letters from four women to their unborn children, written in an uncertain world.

“Clint Lorance had been in charge of his platoon for only three days when he ordered his men to kill three Afghans stopped on a dirt road. A second-degree murder conviction and pardon followed. Today, Lorance is hailed as a hero by President Trump. His troops have suffered a very different fate.”

“She’s dead, and I’m quarantined. That’s how the story ends. I keep going back over it in loops, trying to find a way to sweeten it, but nothing changes the facts. I wasn’t there with her at the end. I didn’t get to say goodbye. I don’t even know where her body is right now, or if the only thing that’s left is her ashes.”

“She tore up a picture of the pope. Then her life came apart. These days, she just wants to make music.”

The reckonings of one of the South’s white suburban women, whose loyalty is key to whether Trump is reelected.

The government required him to see a therapist. He thought his words would be confidential. Now, the traumatized migrant may be deported.

The CIA, in a secret partnership with West Germany, used Crypto AG to sell encryption services to gullible governments and then promptly read all their clandestine communications.

A massive Canadian fossil trove reminds us how fleeting life on Earth can be—and how much peril we’re in.