This Bird’s Life
Leave the pardoning to the president. For one budding farmer, some truths are self-evident: that turkeys are stupid, dirty, and very mean.
violence
A collection of 23 issues
The Low Road
Not everyone who breaks your heart is a monster. And not everyone who wounds you deserves to be wounded in return.
Meet the Flintstones
How to give away a house in Flint, Michigan, home not only to a water scandal but record violence.
A Heritage of Hate
Why it’s the duty of every white American to burn a Confederate flag.
Remnants of the Underground Railroad
The Thirteenth Amendment passed 150 years ago, abolishing slavery. Today, little of the Underground Railroad still remains. A painter hits the road to discover what’s intact.
More Home Runs Are Hit With Guns Than Baseball Bats
What happens before an NRA-commissioned—or rather, university-approved—study reaches the public.
Mumbai Moment
Mumbai could be thought of as New York, LA, and Lagos all wrapped into one. But a string of rapes changes all that.
Heartplunger
A childhood ban on toy guns didn’t erase the specter of death from a neighborhood.
Bad Land
America is full of guns—one gun for every citizen—and Americans often use them to shoot one another. It’s not enough anymore to say we love our guns. The question is: Why do we kill?
I Wish That We Could Both Be There
In 1974, a car hits a seven-year-old boy in central New Jersey. The boy dies. From 2013, a former friend starts to probe the causes, effects, statistics, and consequences.