Why I Spent Two Years Investigating a Notorious Mass Shooting

1 day 17 hours ago
Ten years ago, a 22-year-old murdered six college students in a suicidal rampage near Santa Barbara, California. Those students were Weihan Wang, Cheng Hong, George Chen, Katherine Cooper, Veronika Weiss, and Christopher Martinez. Many others were injured and traumatized in the attack. It was a horrific event that has, in some ways, been poorly understood by the […]
Mark Follman

Lessons From a Mass Shooter’s Mother

1 day 17 hours ago
along the coastal 101 in brilliant blue, the bright May sky beginning to soften toward sunset. Chin Rodger felt a lift of optimism as she exited the freeway and arrived at a sushi restaurant tucked away in the tony town of Montecito, where she greeted her 22-year-old son, Elliot. He looked well. He wore a […]
Mark Follman

Carvell Wallace on Life and Love and Coming of Age in a Cruel World

1 day 22 hours ago
Editor’s note: It is hard to briefly summarize the poignancy, vulnerability, and harrowing beauty of Another Word for Love, an exceptional new memoir from the journalist and podcaster Carvell Wallace, who infuses vignettes of his hardscrabble journey from boyhood to middle age with philosophical ruminations on culture; family, love, sex, inner torment, and just about […]
Carvell Wallace

These Tribes Are Building Crossings to Save Wildlife From Becoming Roadkill

1 day 22 hours ago
This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The North Cascades elk herd is a cluster of some 1,600 animals whose domain, like so many habitats, is riven by a highway. From 2012 to 2019, Washington state records show, at least 229 elk were killed by cars along a […]
Ben Goldfarb

The Make-or-Break Testimony of Michael Cohen

1 day 22 hours ago
The key prosecution witness faced defense lawyers as Donald J. Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial neared what may be an unexpectedly early conclusion.
Michael Barbaro, Jonah E. Bromwich, Eric Krupke, Stella Tan, Will Reid, Devon Taylor, Elisheba Ittoop, Marion Lozano, Pat McCusker and Alyssa Moxley

America’s Billionaires Are Really Going to Hate This New Senate Bill

1 day 22 hours ago
Almost as predictably as the sun rises in the East and sets in the West, the rich grow richer. “Wealth concentration in a few hands is the single most enduring economic pattern across all poli­ties from Mesopotamia to the present—rarely interrupted, and then only for brief intervals,” the political scientist Jeffrey Winters, who studies oligarchies […]
Michael Mechanic