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We Started the Fire

by Clayton Dalton,

The risks of prescribed burns in a warming climate

Lone on the Range

by Leland Nally,

Prairie madness on the Great Plains

Knights-Errant

by Jacob Sweet,

Online chess reshapes the game of kings

Come and Get It

by Joe Kloc,

A risky invitation to extraterrestrials

No Pain, No Gain

by Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein,

Pandemic bonds and the privatization of public health

Lost Cause

by Meg Bernhard,

How police violence disappears from death certificates

The Hothouse

by Maya L. Kapoor,

Tracking the past and future spread of ragweed allergies

Your Own Devices

by Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson,

The Right to Repair movement gains ground

A Firm Hand

by Ian MacDougall,

McKinsey goes to Rikers Island

Divine Logic

by Stephen Budiansky,

Kurt Gödel’s last proof

The Big Frieze

by Dan Brooks,

Cartoonist Ben Garrison’s MAGA in winter

Measureless to Man

by Matthew Sherrill,

The art of mapping the underground

Negative I.D.

by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian,

Proving you’re safe to travel

Shelter in Place

by Samanth Subramanian,

The democratic designs of J.B.S. Haldane

False Prophets

by Madeleine Schwartz,

How to forge a Dead Sea Scroll

Signs of the Covenant

by Jamie Levin, Sarah Treleaven,

The old media of the ultra-Orthodox

Abstract Expression

by Jacob Mikanowski,

The former Yugoslavia’s enigmatic memorial architecture

If I’m to Go

by Vanessa Gregory,

How to fight a deportation

The Haunted House

by Sophie Haigney,

What privacy looks like on Google Street View

The Counter-Monument

by Zoey Poll,

Disempowering a memorial to Fascism

Out of Africa

by Oscar Schwartz,

The legacy of colonialism threatens the future of genetic research

The Birds

by Jake Bittle,

Amazon dreams of a drone-filled sky

Bite Marks

by Bobbi Dempsey,

What a dental x-ray reveals about poverty

Slash Fictions

by Noah Sneider,

A vandalized painting and the legacy of Ivan the Terrible

Paper Terrorism

by Anne Diebel, Tyler Maroney,

Anti-government vigilantes wield a subtle weapon

A Flag for Trump’s America

by Jeff Sharlet,

The power of strength

Suspicious Minds

by Ava Kofman,

Artificial intelligence and the expanding reach of the police

Walk the Line

by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro,

The unlikely origins of the US-Mexico border

Stormy Waters

by Elizabeth Rush, Rebecca Elliott,

Mistaken Identities

by Jesse Hicks, Matt Stroud,

A closer look into the meanings and histories of everyday documents, diagrams, maps, and images.

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