June 2015 Archives
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Profiles
Paper Citizen
America is a proud nation of immigrants—try telling that to everyone on the other side of the door. Life as a white-collar undocumented immigrant in New York.
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Video
Bree Newsome scaled the State House flagpole and removed the Confederate flag
“Newsome was halfway up the 30-foot pole when police demanded that she climb back down, but she continued upward and removed the flag.”
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The Doctor Is In
Fight or Flight
A near-death experience makes this week’s International Asteroid Day a little more tricky to celebrate.
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Realpolitiking
A Heritage of Hate
Why it’s the duty of every white American to burn a Confederate flag.
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Phenomena Understood
Our Dino Love Will Never Die
Dinosaurs haven’t been super-popular for 65 million years—it only feels that way. Fans and experts explain our obsession with dead monsters.
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Personal Essays
The Problem of the Flying Puppies
Catfishing is usually part of an online romance scam—not the world of expensive French bulldogs.
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Explainers
A Recipe for Disasters
Calculating the probable dates for very bad things—a catastrophic solar megastorm; Seattle destroyed by earthquake—that are likely to occur.
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Growing Up
Silicon Valley High
No one’s surprised in Silicon Valley when a 12-year-old runs the family e-commerce store. But going to the same high school as Steve Jobs and liking it are two different things.
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Gallery
The Wild World
Photographs that find stillness in turbulence, moments close to reverence when almost nothing’s in control.
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How the West Was Lost
The Riflemaker Dreams of Africa
The American West is a myth. One Wyoming gunmaker looks anywhere else—abroad, in the past, in himself—for new wilderness.