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Jun 26, 2026
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3 min read
Plus: the night the Guadalupe River became a tsunami, the family who traded Café Gratitude for a Texas cattle ranch, and the water law letting Oregon estates go lush while farmers go broke.
Politics & Power
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Jun 25, 2026
Plus: a Harvard lawyer's bizarre kidnapping scheme, a Toronto cop whose brother ran with the mob, and Byron Bay's decades-long cover-up.
Profiles
Jun 24, 2026
Plus: a week inside Thailand's most grueling fight gym, Darwin's messier Galápagos story, and one writer's AI boyfriend experiment.
Culture
Jun 23, 2026
2 min read
Plus: a state trooper's double murder, Ukraine's drone-guiding spy network, and what history says about science under siege.
Plus: a family's 56-year domestic slave, men who lie about their height, and leaked files exposing a fast-growing White supremacist group.
Plus: three prize-winning stories that might be AI, Nicolas Cage explains himself, and the great artisanal cheese heist.
Plus: the only woman ever sworn into the yakuza, a Nevada mom jailed over a stillbirth Facebook post, and Trinity test downwinders finally compensated.
Plus: the lawyers using wrongful death suits to punish abortion helpers, a 10-time Jeopardy champ's playbook, and mahjong's $400 makeover.
Plus: an unsolved 1992 Los Angeles murder, Bowlero's private equity playbook, and one writer's months inside the Replika AI friendship app.
Plus: fake viral music, Americans living in the desert for $180, and Gen Z students who can't unsee what they've seen.
Plus: wildfire smoke and sick babies, deadly new microbes, and rural America's forgotten girls
Plus: the world's richest cat, the Gawker fallout ten years on, and Colombian cartels recruiting kids on TikTok
Plus: Plus: the testosterone boom, a PE firm cornering youth hockey, and a teacher fired for harassment who kept teaching.
