California Cities Are Ending ICE Detention Contracts, but Immigrants Might Not Go Free
Instead of releasing detainees, ICE is sending immigrants to remote, privately run facilities far from their lawyers and families.
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My Venezuelan Family and Me
Separated by ideology, we carried on with our lives in starkly different places, each sticking to the truth we'd chosen to listen to, unable to see the other's reality.
Campsites Among the Stumps: The Unmaking of the Great American Commons
A dispatch from the ongoing war on America’s public lands.
The Beautiful Schemers Who Took Desert and Marsh and Turned California Into an Agricultural Wonder
From the beginning, the Central Valley's productivity was a result of the most intensive farming experiment the world had ever seen. And now, farmers are pushing even harder against biological realities. An excerpt from Mark Arax's critically acclaimed new book, "The Dreamt Land."
The Many Health Benefits of Meth
In low, pharmaceutical-grade doses, meth may actually repair and protect the brain in certain circumstances.
The Billionaires’ Guide to Hacking the Planet
What would it look like if a small group of billionaires took unilateral climate action through solar radiation management?
How to Make It Big in Hip-Hop When Your City Pretends You Don’t Exist
Young artists are finding creative ways to carve a space in Portland's lively—if fractious and often ignored—hip-hop scene.
Many Blue States Have Poor Voter Rights Records Too
States in the Deep South limit access to the polls. So does New York.
GM ‘Unallocated’ Its Lordstown, Ohio, Plant. What’s Next for the Village?
Donald Trump blamed David Green, the local UAW president, for the plant's shutdown. Green is now fighting for his union members' futures.
The American Candidate
Attaullah Nasib came of age in the United States. When he ran for Afghan Parliament, he learned how difficult re-building a democracy can be.