ARE YOU KITTEN ME?
Should Animals Win Acting Oscars? An Investigation
It's a question of whether animals featured in movies are acting in the first place.
Pacific Standard
IT'S NOT THAT SIMPLE
The Genetic Case Against Designer Babies
The science does not support the idea that we can alter a child's DNA to ensure certain health and intelligence outcomes.
INEFFECIENT AND UNFAIR
Our Bail System Costs The Country $15 Billion Per Year
About 65% of the United States' total jail population are pre-trial detainees who haven't yet been convicted of a crime. The majority are there simply because they lack the financial resources to pay bail.
REFLECTIONS ON ACCOUNTABILITY
Why Do We Speak Ill Of The Dead?
For people who exercise great power, accountability after death is a small price to pay.
THE OLD GUARD HANGS ON
Kevin De León Took On The Democratic Establishment. It Fought Back
The state senator from Los Angeles has racked up major legislative achievements on everything from clean energy to immigration reform. Now he faces his biggest — and most unlikely — challenge yet: unseating Dianne Feinstein.
DUCKS AND COVER
The Secret Betrayal That Sealed Nike's Special Influence Over The University Of Oregon
Dave Frohnmayer needed money to save his school. Alum and Nike chief executive Phil Knight was happy to help — as long as the university could be managed in a way that would maximize the company's brand and profits. But when Frohnmayer made a key misstep, Knight exacted a brutal punishment.
THE OLYMPICS ARE BAD FOR CITIES
The Grassroots Organizers Trying To Keep The Olympics Out Of Los Angeles
NOlympics LA says the city's bid to host the Olympics in 2028 will ultimately damage and displace its most vulnerable populations.
THEY'RE TALKING *ABOUT YOU*
How To Keep The Internet Of Things From Killing Us All
Author Bruce Schneier warns about the coming hyper-networked world where all your devices are talking to each other.
'I'M WRITING THIS BECAUSE I'M NOT ALONE'
How I Discovered My Depression — And Began To Confront It
With suicide rising among undiagnosed American depressives, I recognized it was time to admit I needed help.
'A LETTER FROM PHANTOM RANCH'
Meet The Man Who Lives At The Bottom Of The Grand Canyon
Sjors Horstman has spent the last 30 years of his life at the bottom of the Grand Canyon as a volunteer for the National Park Service — one of the longest-serving volunteers in NPS history.
'THE STORY SHOULD BE ABOUT MOLLIE'
The Martyring Of Mollie Tibbetts
The case of the 20-year-old's disappearance in rural Iowa was a tragedy. The discovery of her body became a political crusade against immigrants that her family and community never condoned.
'NOSTALIGIA, SADNESS, LONGING'
The Things They Lost In The Fire
After fleeing the Carr Fire, survivors ask: What did they leave behind? In the days afterward, they dwelled mainly on the things they left behind. False teeth. Diaries. A coin collection. A grandparent's blanket.
DANGER IN THE WATER
What Happened At Camp Lejeune
I grew up drinking and bathing in the toxic waters around a military base in North Carolina. Thirty years later, I went back to investigate.
WHITEWASHED
Research Shows That White Mass Shooters Are Treated More Sympathetically By The Media
A new study finds they are more likely than their black counterparts to be portrayed as victims of mental illness.
THE ENDLING
Watching A Species Vanish In Real Time
On the frontlines of extinction in the Gulf of California, where the vaquita faces its final days.
FORGOTTEN JUSTICE IN JASPER
The Shocking Legacy Of America's Worst Modern-Day Lynching
Twenty years after the brutal, racially motivated murder of James Byrd Jr. in Jasper, Texas, some residents are trying to scrub the crime — and the bigotry behind it — from the town's history.
A TRIBE CALLED GUESSED
The History Of The World According To David Brooks
Brooks depends on a lazy and ignorant story about tribalism to bolster a specific myth about American exceptionalism.
'NATHAN WON'T LISTEN TO ANYONE'
My Brother, The White Nationalist
When Josh Damigo finds out his brother is the new face of the white nationalist movement, finding the roots of radicalization becomes personal.
DARKNESS FALLS
Solving The Suicide Crisis In The Arctic Circle
High above the rapidly warming Arctic Circle, the people of Clyde River are looking to nature and Inuit tradition in a bid to end the town's epidemic of despair and suicide.
IT'S ALL DOWNHILL FROM HERE
Flooding, Heat Waves, And Destabilized Ecosystems: Here's What The Next 100 Years Of Climate Change Could Bring
A new study predicts a steep drop in fisheries' production. It's the latest in a growing body of research to show how changes to the Earth's ecosystems will cause disruption to its inhabitants.
