A Reporter at Large: Starved in Jail
Why are people, arrested during mental-health crises, dying from lack of food and water?

Profiles: The Portal Opens
For forty years, Phish has jammed—for those with ears to hear.

Annals of Zoology: Life After Death
Has Colossal, a genetics startup, resurrected the ancient dire wolf? Born to a mixed-breed dog, Remus, Romolus and Khaleesi have ancient dire-wolf DNA that was inserted with CRISPR.

Letter from Brazil: Strongmen
In a conflict between a top jurist and the nation’s ex-President, the internet is the front line. Alexandre de Moraes´s campaign to criminalize disinformation led to a ban of X in Brazil, and a battle with Elon Musk.

A Reporter at Large: Open Secret
Why did police let one of America’s most prolific predators get away for so long?

Onward and Upward with the Arts: Landscape Mode
Dirty Projectors’ symphony for a burning world.

The Political Scene: The Invisible Man
Will Majority Leader John Thune protect the Senate from irrelevance? Thune has said that he has to make it clear to the White House that DODGE cannot cut government without Senate approval, as Elon Musk appears to have done repeadetly.

The Political Scene: You Mad, Bro?
Young men have gone MAGA. Can the left win them back?