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Follow the Oil Trail and You’ll Find the Girls
A filmmaker travels the U.S. and Canada to speak with Indigenous women about the constant threats to their safety and their lives. By Riayn Fergin.
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Murderous Manila
On the Night Shift. By James Fenton.
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Enter the Pussyhat
On the Women’s March, Disrupt J20, and #IWillGoOut.
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Can the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Be Found in Cuba?
A birder, ornithologist, writer, and photographer set off on an extreme adventure through the muck and memories of eastern Cuba. By Mac McClelland.
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Our School
In the changing lands above the Arctic Circle, traditional and modern ways of knowing are integrated in the classroom. By Lauren Markham.
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The Couple Who Saved China’s Ancient Architectural Treasures Before They Were Lost Forever
As the nation teetered on the brink of war in the 1930s, two Western-educated thinkers struck out for the hinterlands to save their country’s riches. By Tony Perrottet.
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Death on the Hippie Trail
A young man’s mysterious disappearance in the Himalayas. By Ariel Sophia Bardi.
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An Ancient City Emerges in a Remote Rain Forest
Undisturbed for centuries, the ruins of a city in a barely accessible region of Honduras suggest an ancient apocalypse. By Douglas Preston.
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Trans-Siberian Railway: a view from Moscow to Vladivostok – a photo essay
On a 9,288km journey inspired by the centennial anniversary of the railway’s completion in 1916, photographer Annie Ling captures life onboard the Trans-Siberian Railway, and beyond the carriage window.
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The bank lent me $2m so I spent it on strippers and cars [and all]
Luke Brett Moore, a young Australian, had just lost his job when he discovered his bank was mistakenly allowing him unlimited credit. It was too good an opportunity to miss. By Brett Moore.
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A Photographic Chronicle of America’s Working Poor
Smithsonian journeyed from Maine to California to update a landmark study of American life. By Dale Maharidge; Photographs by Matt Black.
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An Ode to the Imperfect, 21st-Century American Cabin
The author, feeling hemmed in by the city, buys a secluded wilderness retreat. But are there any truly wild places left to escape to? And what exactly are we seeking when we head into the woods? By Kenneth R. Rosen.
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COP22 in Review: We’ll Work Until We Drown
The free market will save us, but not before it’s finished with us. By Ted Scheinman.
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On the Knife-Edge of Western Globalization: A Stint at Standing Rock
Armed men in jackboots, some masked and toting assault rifles, stand mockingly, defiantly, heavily on the mound of graves – a sacred indigenous burial ground. A site non-natives can understand as similar to Arlington National Cemetery… By Robert Barsocchini.
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An American in a Strange Land
After more than a decade away, a foreign correspondent comes back to take stock of his divided homeland. By Jim Yardley.
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If You Want to Buy a Camel or Zebra, Go to Africa–or Missouri
A livestock auction house in the town of Macon [Missouri] has more in common with an exotic African market than you might think. By Lise Saffran.
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Thursday in Selma, North Carolina
I wandered around awkwardly, thinking about the left’s shortcomings, missed opportunities. Shouldn’t many of these folks have been with Bernie? By Astra Taylor.
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The tales of bodies and blood that surround a front line in Syria
In the village of Soran, near Hama, and the surrounding area, civilians speak of their loss as part of one battle in Syria's larger civil war, writes Robert Fisk.
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Finding A Way Home Through ‘The Door Of No Return’
Gene Demby thought a visit to Ghana for a wedding would be fun and uncomplicated, but it sent him down a road of introspection about black fatherhood and its connection to America’s original sin.
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In the Death Zone
Confronting the true danger on top of the world's tallest mountain. By Gabriel Filippi and Brett Popplewell.
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