Killings
California Chronicles
The Trial of the Malibu Shooter
Anthony Rauda, who was accused of terrorizing residents of Malibu, one of California’s wealthiest and safest communities, has been convicted of killing a man sleeping in a tent with his two young daughters.
Sports
Why Were Two Female Running Champions Killed in Kenya?
Iten, a small town in the Great Rift Valley, became the long-distance-running capital of the world. Then, within a span of six months, two élite athletes were found dead.
Books
The Making of a Femicide
A Mexican novelist explores how murderous male rage flourishes in an ailing society.
Daily Comment
Justice for Ahmaud Arbery
Were it not for a graphic video and intense pressure from activists, the killers of an unarmed Black man in Georgia might have been acquitted.
A Reporter at Large
The Other Afghan Women
In the countryside, the endless killing of civilians turned women against the occupiers who claimed to be helping them.
A Reporter at Large
Kyle Rittenhouse, American Vigilante
After he killed two people in Kenosha, opportunists turned his case into a polarizing spectacle.
Letter from the Philippines
When a Populist Demagogue Takes Power
Since Rodrigo Duterte was elected President of the Philippines, in May, more than three thousand people have been killed in a vicious drug war.
Dept. of Disputation
“The Birth of a Nation” Isn’t Worth Defending
Nate Parker’s retelling of Nat Turner’s rebellion does not succeed as art or as propaganda.
A Reporter at Large
An Isolated Tribe Emerges from the Rain Forest
In Peru, an unsolved killing has brought the Mashco Piro into contact with the outside world.
Shouts & Murmurs
Disclos’D
Fiction
Creatures
Fiction
Free Fruit for Young Widows
A Reporter at Large
The Life After
Letter from Long Island
The Color of Blood
Letter from Iraq