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Longform portraits of people — athletes, artists, criminals, survivors — whose stories reveal something larger about the world.

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Plus: the Boeing 747's last flight to a desert boneyard, the end of humanity, and Nashville's accidental street historian.
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Plus: why measuring Earth's exact shape rewired science, Texas's first family of balloon racing, and the worms that suddenly forgot how to learn.
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Plus: China's AI frenzy is fear wearing optimism's clothes, the privacy consultant who lives like he's in witness protection, and the AI actress nobody asked for.
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Plus: three prize-winning stories that might be AI, Nicolas Cage explains himself, and the great artisanal cheese heist.
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Plus: Elizabeth Strout's 11th novel, an American tween on the edge of everything, and why Little Debbie matters.
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