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The Haunting of Western Pennsylvania

Groan if you’ve heard this one before: the Halloween boom in the Rust Belt

The Things They Carried

Relying on personal effects and DNA, forensic scientists work to identify undocumented migrants who passed away in South Texas

Tiny Sparks

by Madison Mainwaring,

A Paris photo agency transitions to the digital age

Indistinguishable from Magic

by Linda Kinstler,

Dynamicland seeks to free us from our devices—through technology

Hot, Silent, and Brand New

by Mike Powell,

Back and forth across the Phoenix sprawl in triple-digit heat

The Grunts of the System

by Sasha von Oldershausen,

In the face of zero tolerance and family separation, public defenders in Texas are using novel arguments in the hopes of assisting asylum-seekers

“What sort of freedom is this?”

by Alizeh Kohari,

Pakistan attempts to stifle a protest movement among its Pashtun population

The Wish List

by Chantel Tattoli,

A village in New York wants to bring Santa back to town.

The Real Thing

by Lily Brooks-Dalton,

A visit to the space coast

The Bad and the Ugly

by Kyle Paoletta,

Acquiring works for the Museum of Bad Art

Body Hunters

by Jesse Alejandro Cottrell,

Searching for closure in Veracruz

The Bubble Bursts

by Alice Whitwham,

Having made it to paradise, refugees are stuck sleeping on Paris streets

The Curator

by Armin Rosen,

Touring Sultan Sooud al-Qassemi's art collection

Shared Silence

by Antonia Juhasz,

What should be done with the symbols of white supremacy?

Network Theory

by Casey Henry,

A visit to Hearst Castle

The Kids of Kyangwali

by Shayera Dark,

Growing up in a refugee settlement in western Uganda

Searching for SantaCon

by Sonia Paul,

How the once jolly San Francisco festival lost its way

Brief History of Time

by Sara Nović,

A day on Noah's Ark

Cave Divers

by Natalie Holly,

Seeking adventure in the caves of Haiti

The World Stage

by Emily Feng,

The death of China's most famous political dissident

Creation Myth

by Esther Wang,

For Texas’s nonwhite majority, there’s little to celebrate about a land grab perpetrated by white settlers

Dark Side of the Mountain

by Wudan Yan,

"I met the Dark Lord and his masters at the trailhead to upper Twin Lake, far from the bright center of the universe."

Pivot to Digital

by Jesse Coburn,

A visit with the man who has digitized more newspaper pages than the Library of Congress.

Street Fight

by Lyndsey Gilpin,

On the sidewalk outside Kentucky's last abortion clinic

Spirits at Death’s Door

by Maggy Donaldson,

A visit to Wisconsin's oldest continually operated tavern.

Prayer and Protest

by Jon Emont,

The breakdown of political norms in Indonesia

How to End a War

by Zach Campbell,

Can a former terrorist forge peace in the Basque Country?

Under the Surface

by Diana Spechler,

Investigating chronic kidney disease in Jalisco, Mexico

God Is from Colón

by Paula Kupfer,

A visit to the once-glamorous city of Colón. Photographs by Rose Marie Cromwell.

Bare Necessities

by Amy Butcher,

A visit to the edge of the Arctic Ocean

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