CLOSER TO THE EDGE
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WHAT'S THAT SMELL?
Its name is Cyclospora cayetanensis.
You’ll never see it with your naked eye. It’s only about ten microns across, a translucent sphere so absurdly small it could ride unnoticed beneath your fingernail. Under a microscope it appears almost...
BUY THE TICKET, MISS THE RIDE
I want to tell you about the weekend I had planned, but I can’t. Instead I have to tell you about the weekend that happened to me, which is a different genre entirely — less “itinerary,” more “interdimensional travel.”
It started Thursday...
DEAR GOVERNORS OF AMERICA
Dear Governors of America,
Stop telling us what you can’t do.
I’ve heard every variation of the excuse by now. Federal jurisdiction. Limited authority. We’re monitoring the situation. We’ll await the investigation. I’ve heard them after M...
LORENZO SALGADO ARAUJO
He got up at 5:50 in the morning. Every morning, for thirty-five years, in a country that spent the last one hunting him.
That’s the whole story, if you want it in one sentence and you don’t have time for the rest. But you should make time...
ALEX LAWSON AND THE POLITICS OF KEEPING YOUR WORD
Every functioning democracy depends on a peculiar species of human being. You know the type even if you’ve never bothered to learn their names. They’re the people who show up before the cameras arrive and leave long after the cameras have f...
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Closer to the Edge documents power in real time, connects the dots others won’t, and publishes clear, relentless journalism that refuses to look away when the truth gets ugly.
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