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Following endangered Mexican gray wolves from their captive birth to their release in New Mexico.

This week we’re sharing stories by Jason Fagone, Betty Ann Adam, Christian H. Cooper, Clarissa Wei, and Robert Kolker.

While snowed in on the West Coast, Frances Badalamenti grapples alone with her father’s death on the other side of what feels like a dying country.

Canadian vigilantes with names like Creep Hunters make popular videos busting pedophiles, and many are now refining their tactics to try and go mainstream.

On the longevity of Maria Sharapova, who has built a brand beyond the bounds of her tennis stardom that has made her incredibly wealthy, but still striving for more.

Trump’s immigration policy has exiled tax-paying, working-class people of Mexican descent to limbo in Tijuana.

This week, we’re sharing stories by Ijeoma Oluo, Michael Hall, Erika Hayasaki, Jerry Saltz, and Caren Chesler.

When 3M, the Post-It Note manufacturer, began making electronic ankle monitors for corrections, it challenged the company’s long-heald philosophy about design and innovation.

On journeys to Rikers Island in New York City and Robben Island in South Africa, Roohi Choudhry examines issues of incarceration and racism, and envisions a day when the convicted are no longer exiled to penal colonies.

How one woman finally styled her hair in a way that determined who she was and demanded that her loving grandmother accept her decision as a sign of strength.

The rickety ’98 Volvo wagon didn’t look like much, but it provided Debbie Weingarten and her children safe passage to a new life.

This week, we’re featuring stories from Richard Beck, Rebecca Mead, Sarah Barker, Dylan Matthews, and Sarah Scoles.

These conservatives are hoping to rally Republican voters around global warming in a way that gets the GOP to finally listen.

For Alex DiFrancesco, coming out as transgender—even to themself—wasn’t possible without first disappearing.

A special police unit terrorized the innocent and murdered the unarmed in the years after Detroit’s race riots.

Hadrian’s Wall, that is. Max Adams explores Britain’s lost early medieval past by walking its ancient paths.

In Harper’s, Yascha Mounk examines how recent Islamic immigration challenges many Germans’ core idea of their national identity.

South African students of color are working to improve the conditions of education in a country that, twenty years after apartheid, is still rigged for the white minority.

Daniel Patterson, and the challenges of bringing fast healthy food to the impoverished neighborhoods trapped in food deserts.

Our top stories of the week, as chosen by the editors at Longreads.

Scientists are taking a second look at the effect of cooperation on evolution.

In STAT, Eric Boodman examines delusional parasitosis, a psychiatric condition neither science nor medicine understand much about.

A madman versus a crook? Unexpected twists? Fake news? Welcome to the election of 1800.

At The Paris Review, writer and creative director Glenn O’Brien narrates the comic struggle of artists who decide to go into advertising.

This week, we’re sharing stories from Amy Wallace, Katherine Laidlaw, Lisa Miller, Porochista Khakpour, and Lauren Schwartzberg.

At Outside, the disappearance of a teenage runner in Colorado brings up the question: Who searches for the people who disappear on American public lands?

Data journalist Ben Blatt takes his a mathematical approach to the writers of fiction.

In the Los Angeles Times, Jeffrey Fleishman profiles two young Angelenos trying not to break down as they try to break into show business.

This week, we’re sharing stories by Sam Knight, Rick Perlstein, Ijeoma Oluo, Keziah Weir, and George Saunders.

In The Walrus, Peter Norman boats for a week with followers of Canada’s fear-mongering conspiratorial conservative, Ezra Levant.