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21st century

Escape from The Caliphate

by Jennifer Percy,

Rescuing and ransoming Christian hostages in Iraq

“Don’t Touch My Medicare!”

by Trudy Lieberman,

Is the beloved program on its last legs?

In Bluegrass Country

by Kathy Dobie,

While tramping through the Daniel Boone National Forest, it is not unusual to come across a family cemetery — stones broken, names faded — or the foundations of a house,…

An Energy-Generating Beaver Dam

by Jacques Leslie,

Thinking small to end the era of big dams

Findings

by Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,

Paleontologists noticed that a 48-million-year-old fossil was of an insect eaten by a lizard eaten by a snake. A western desert tarantula fought its way out of a Sonoran Desert…

In The Hollow

by Chris Offutt,

The changing face of Appalachia—and its role in the presidential race

The Great Republican Land Heist

by Christopher Ketcham,

Seven militants are acquitted in takeover of Oregon Wildlife Refuge; Christopher Ketcham traces the history of the Bureau of Land Management

Psychedelic Trap

by Walter Kirn,

Driving into Cleveland on a warm July Saturday to secure my press credentials for the Republican National Convention, I get a text from a friend in California, a guy in…

A Joyful Noise

by Nicholson Baker,

By Nicholson Baker, from Substitute, an account of his experiences as a substitute teacher in Maine public schools in 2014. The book was published last month by Blue Rider Press.…

Homecoming, the Oilers. Whiting, Indiana

by Yvette Marie Dostatni,

Amo Ergo Sum

by Lois Parshley,

From a conversation with Bina48, a robot that was created by Hanson Robotics for Martine Rothblatt, the CEO of United Therapeutics, as a clone of her wife, Bina Rothblatt. The…