Environment Does the Internet Really Care About Cecil the Lion? If online outrage is having any effect, it's unclear. Jared Keller
Social Justice All Patriotism Is Local Lessons from the Fourth of July at a NASCAR track. Win Bassett
Environment Can Conservation Be Too Successful? How to deal with the return of America's big native fauna. Francie Diep
Environment Shooting a Mountain Lion Until his illegal hunting business was shut down by authorities, you could have paid Christopher Loncarich $7,000 to bag a mountain lion. Lauren Kirchner
Environment Did Humans Train Dogs to Hunt Woolly Mammoths? A new hypothesis suggests that our ancestors trained wolves to help them kill. John Upton
Environment Writing From the Woods: Surveying the Literature of Opting Out As part of our week-long series on people who opt out of society, Eva Holland traces the American tradition of examining the outdoors with loving precision, from Henry David Thoreau to Annie Dillard. Eva Holland
Environment The Strange Mystery of the Alien Bears of Bulgaria New genetic analysis suggests that a deranged Romanian dictator, who relished bear hunting, flew them there. Ryan Jacobs
Environment Getting the Lead Out of Both Dumps and Ammo Can't control guns? Then how about the lead in bullets? Michael Todd
Economics Guns, Game, and Control: Who Are America’s Hunters? Since the Newtown massacre I have heard repeatedly that one necessary act for advancing gun control is to… Michael Todd