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- Cover Story
Room for Improvement
More and more cities are finding that giving the homeless a place to live saves millions. Can common sense scale?
- FEATURES
The Brief Life and Private Death of Alexandria Hill
At age two, she became a revenue stream for a for-profit company. Nine months later she was dead.
Let Them Eat Junk
This fast-food-loving, organics-bashing Cornell professor wants to trick you into eating better.
Call of Duty
Inside a Chinese internet addiction boot camp
Of Unsound Mind
Executing the insane is against the law of the land. So why do states keep doing it?
Citizen Troll
Meet the conservative provocateur who’s unleashing the internet’s worst instincts.
- OutFront
Turning the Clock Back
Weakening Roe, week by week
More Than Skin Deep
Your father’s drag show
Flee-conomics
Why companies switch countries
The New Muckrakers
Conservative muckraking, reborn
Satanic Reverses
Satan shares the public square.
Captive Audience
FaceTime for felons
Are We There Yet?
When dad is in jail—and a daylong bus ride away
- MIXED MEDIA
Revenge of the Nerd
Director Mike Judge lampoons Silicon Valley.
Salt of the Earth
A lifetime of photography from Sebastião Salgado
Irritable Hearts
Author Mac McClelland on love and PTSD.
Texts From Mallory Ortberg
Sexts to Scarlett O’Hara, c/o Mallory Ortberg
“The Actual Truth Is, I Was a Racist”
Thomas Jefferson, podcaster extraordinaire
- FOOD + HEALTH
Dark Side of the Sun
The dark side of solar
The Real Problem With Bread
Slow your roll, gluten haters.
Contributors
Hours after 1 Molly Redden first reported on GOP bills outlawing abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, House Republicans shelved their proposed legislation (“Turning Back the Clock“); the story’s art is by 2 Javier Jaén, who lives in Barcelona.
Brian Joseph (“The Brief Life and Private Death of Alexandria Hill“) is a former Sacramento bureau chief for the Orange County Register.
After profiling a laissez-faire food expert, 3 Kiera Butler will never again deny herself a quesadilla (“Let Them Eat Junk“); to go with the story, 4 Tristan Spinski photographed—and then ate—two slices of pizza, two double cheeseburgers, fries, lo mein, and fortune cookies.
5 Scott Carrier is a Peabody Award-winning journalist whose work has been featured by Harper’s, GQ, and This American Life (“Room for Improvement“); Salt Lake City-based photographer Jim McAuley has shot for the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
6 Stephanie Mencimer regularly reports on mental health and the court system—in this issue, she covered them both (“Of Unsound Mind“).
Tim Murphy worries that the conservative provocateur he wrote about (“Citizen Troll“) might dig up his two speeding tickets.
Illustrator Kyle Platts (“Revenge of the Nerd”) lives in London and is the author of Megaskull, a comic book.
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