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After rebuilding Fraguas, a town destroyed under Franco, Spanish squatters face eviction

An Asian-American couple who allegedly spent more than $100,000 on in vitro fertilization sued a fertility clinic after they gave birth to two children who are not Asian.

Theories on the frontier: the process, politics, and ethics that arise while covering the U.S.-Mexico border

New York announced that there are, officially, 2,373 squirrels in Central Park.

Three writers and activists consider the meanings of Pride

Alabama passed a law allowing a Presbyterian megachurch to create its own police force.

Boaty McBoatface, an autonomous underwater vehicle that was named in a 2016 internet poll, discovered that stronger Antarctic winds, the result of a growing hole in the ozone layer, have been causing more ocean turbulence, which in turn has raised sea levels and temperatures.

After years of post-Brexit uncertainty, Scotland’s independence movement has become resurgent

At the border with William T. Vollmann; new fiction by David Szalay and Nell Zink; and more

New York City seized 46 ice cream trucks in a sting called “Operation Meltdown.”

“What is it to be French? The question has always struck me as unhealthy and manipulative . . . ”

Who generates value in the modern economy, and who should benefit?

An event at a gas station in Edmonton to celebrate the repeal of Alberta’s consumer carbon tax was canceled in response to heavy smoke from uncontained wildfires elsewhere in the province.

A study predicted that the average size of animals will shrink 25 percent in the next century.

A discussion about the recent spate of legislation that seems to threaten a woman’s right to choose

Uber added a “quiet mode” feature that allows passengers to choose from options such as “quiet preferred,” “happy to chat,” or “no preference.”

For folks on either coast, the story of climate change is also a story about extreme wealth disparity.

Left to the tender mercies of the state, a group of veterans and their families continue to reside in a shut-down town

Rag-and-bone: the resale of items trashed in the United States and shipped to Haiti says a lot about history, politics, and drugs

How to turn the climate collapse into retirement bliss

The United States is nearly drought-free for the first time in decades and is experiencing unprecedented levels of flooding.

Marilynne Robinson on poverty; Alexander Chee, T Cooper, Garth Greenwell, T Kira Madden, Eileen Myles, Darryl Pinckney, Brontez Purnell, and Michelle Tea on Stonewall; and more

“The Times has used every opportunity to present Sanders as an obstacle to Trump’s eventual overthrow.”

Olive branch as a club: a former president of Doctors Without Borders outlines how the justifications for war have evolved

A fund-raiser for a charter school in California was canceled after QAnon conspiracy theory believers bombarded the school with threats on the basis of their interpretation of a tweet by former FBI director James Comey, in which he listed five jobs he had held in the past.

Olivier Assayas’s latest film holds on to the old world while recognizing the new

Men-children desperately want to grow up, and the world would be better for it. But they’ve got to do more than make their beds.