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Illustration by Barbara Rego* Ultra-fast Fashion Is Eating the World
Even a pandemic can’t stop people from buying clothes they don’t need.
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Michael Schmelling 98 Million TikTok Followers Can’t Be Wrong
How a 16-year-old from suburban Connecticut became the most famous teen in America
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Epics / Getty Who Has the Right to Shelter in a Small Town?
People are fleeing big cities for rural areas in an attempt to outrun COVID-19. In Marfa, Texas, that has divided the community.
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Hokyoung Kim The Killing of a Colorado Rancher
When Jake Millison went missing, his family said he’d skipped town. But his friends knew him better than that, and they refused to let him simply disappear.
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Paul Spella When GoFundMe Gets Ugly
The largest crowdfunding site in the world puts up a mirror to who we are and what matters most to us. Try not to look away.
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Courtesy of Matthew Cox / The Atlantic The Con Man Who Became a True-Crime Writer
In his old life, Matthew Cox told stories to scam his way into millions of dollars. Now he’s trying to make it by selling tales that are true.
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WG600; Ariel Zambelich; KARE-TV Minneapolis; Fort Worth Police … The Perfect Man Who Wasn’t
For years he used fake identities to charm women out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Then his victims banded together to take him down.
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Elena Pavlovich / Chaikom / Shutterstock / Zak … A Map That Shows You Everything Wrong With Your Brain
Technology that compares your brain’s electrical activity to everyone else’s could revolutionize mental-health treatments—or worsen people’s obsessions with perfection.
