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Shades of Blue

Late on election night, when the betting markets were just realizing that Trump’s path to victory had narrowed, and leading voices on the left were lamenting the failure of anything…

Blood Money

by Andrew Cockburn,

Taxpayers pick up the tab for police brutality

Range Wars

by Mort Rosenblum,Art by Samuel James,

A copper rush sparks last-ditch battles for Arizona’s soul

Destroyer of Worlds

by Elaine Scarry, Eric Schlosser, Lydia Millet, Mohammed Hanif, Rachel Bronson, Theodore Postol,

Taking stock of our nuclear present

Tucson, Arizona

by Francisco Cantú,

Every weekday at the federal courthouse in Tucson, Arizona, undocumented migrants are gathered in a courtroom and made to face the judge’s pulpit like shackled parishioners. Most of them are…

States of Decay

by Ben Mauk,

A journey through America’s nuclear heartland

Class Dismissed

by Alexandria Neason,

When a state divests from public education

Beyond a Boundary

by James Marcus,

From a distance, as it hugs the hilly terrain, the fence looks almost decorative — a rambling, rust-colored abstraction. A thin ribbon of road runs alongside, its sandy surface kept…

Razing Arizona

by Christopher Ketcham,

Will drought destroy the Southwest?

Blue Sky Days

by Tomas van Houtryve,

Two years ago, in February 2012, President Barack Obama signed into law the FAA Modernization and Reform Act, which called on the Federal Aviation Administration to “provide for the safe…

Final Jeopardy

From more than 200 questions posed by jurors over two days in March during the trial of Jodi Arias. Arias, who stands accused of the 2008 murder of her former…