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Special Feature

Mist-Direction

Mist-Direction

What do oil companies, ultraconservative think tanks, and billionaires agree on regarding global warming? Perhaps that it is propaganda, pseudoscience, or a hoax? Or perhaps something more paradoxical: that they have found its solution.  For decades, climate change has forged a destructive path thro...
Stateless Neighbors

Stateless Neighbors

Aisles Apart

Aisles Apart

:( Your Government Ran Into a Problem and Needs to Restart

:( Your Government Ran Into a Problem and Needs to Restart

Prompt and Circumstance

Prompt and Circumstance

United States

Terms and Conditions Apply

Terms and Conditions Apply

Players of popular open-world racing game The Crew knew the servers would eventually shut down. Ubisoft had announced the game’s end date well in advance — but when that day arrived, it vanished from players’ libraries, with no ‘offline mode’ and no way to access what they had previously purchased....
To Clear the Air

To Clear the Air

Mall or Nothing

Mall or Nothing

Your Local Drug Dealer is a War Criminal

Your Local Drug Dealer is a War Criminal

Righting the Left

Righting the Left

World

No Path Across

No Path Across

Under the cover of night, small boats depart from the Libyan coastline, headed toward sanctuary in Italy. Packed onto rickety vessels and often bought and traded by armed gangs,  thousands of migrants and refugees face grueling challenges on their journey north. Some are unaccompanied children; othe...
Cutting the Line

Cutting the Line

The People’s Strongman

The People’s Strongman

Battle of the Clocks

Battle of the Clocks

Breaking Bread

Breaking Bread

Spray-Painting Politics: From Bed-Stuy to La BocaPhotos

Spray-Painting Politics: From Bed-Stuy to La Boca

Interviews

A Student Leader of the Darkly Turbulent 60s in America, Now and Then: An Interview with Nancy Bekavac

A Student Leader of the Darkly Turbulent 60s in America, Now and Then: An Interview with Nancy Bekavac

Nancy Y. Bekavac is an American academic and former lawyer who served as the sixth president of Scripps College from 1990 to 2007, becoming the first woman to lead the institution. Raised in Clairton,...
A Pandemic of Prejudice and the Fight for Public Education: An Interview with Miguel Cardona 

A Pandemic of Prejudice and the Fight for Public Education: An Interview with Miguel Cardona 

Miguel Cardona began his career as a fourth-grade teacher before becoming the youngest principal in Connecticut and later the state’s first Latino Commissioner of Education. As the second Secretary of...