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Social conditions

The Great Divide

by Maddy Crowell,

Traveling by rail through India’s disputed north

If These Walls Could Talk

by Lauren Markham,

The strange history of our futile border fortifications

The Uncertainty Principle

by Walter Kirn,

The first year of the Trump presidency is behind us. The unimaginable has become the historical. But time, the reputed healer of all wounds, has somehow only aggravated this one.…

Song and Dance

by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Witold Szabłowski,

By Witold Szablowski, from Dancing Bears, a book of reportage that will be published next month by Penguin Books. Szab?owski is a journalist. Translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.

Within Reach

by Nicole Pasulka,

The transgender community fights for health care

On the Corner of Myth and Main

by Walter Kirn,

There was a time when I didn’t know that I lived in Middle America. When I was very young, growing up in eastern Minnesota, I thought I was just an…

“I am Here Only for Working”

by William T. Vollmann,

Conversations with the petroleum brotherhood in the UAE

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by Steve Brodner,

Shaking with Fear

From a verbal report given by Harold Howard to Kurt Castaldo, a deputy in the sheriff’s office in Palm Beach County, Florida, in December 2015. Howard alleged that Yousef Muslet…

Monumental Error

by J. C. Hallman,

Will New York City finally tear down a statue?

Miami

by Edwidge Danticat,

On May 13, 2017, I was standing on the back of a pickup truck and addressing a couple hundred or so protesters gathered in front of the Miami field office…