How population counts reflect who governments think matter.
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Clipping The Devil’s Rope
How barbed wire sparked a cowboy war and changed the American west.
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The Death of the Kurdish Dream
It briefly looked like the Kurds would get their own independent state. What happened?
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Kashmir is Cut Off
After decades of border disputes, Muslim-majority Kashmir is under a strict crackdown by India’s Hindu nationalist government.
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The Empire is Crumbling
Rails, waterways, pipes, bridges, airports, electricity, even the internet – America is falling apart.
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The Kīlauea Eruption is Still Being Felt
“Lava leaves little trace that humans had ever been there at all.”
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It’s All in the Family
Five interesting family trees, from the media you consume to life in the ocean.
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Henry Ford’s Failed Amazonian Suburb
An excerpt from This Land is My Land: A graphic history of big dreams, micronations, and self-made states.
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20 Years Later, Columbine Is The Spectacle the Shooters Wanted
Searching for meaning in the shooters’ infamous “basement tapes.”
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Who Wants to Live Forever?
Silicon Valley tries to disrupt death
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