Rising Again: How surgeons have tackled the world’s first penis transplants
The complex quality-of-life procedure is, in some sense, life-saving: It allows patients to feel like themselves again.
Beware the sextortionists in your inbox
Porn makes for a particularly intimate venue for extortion, compared to spoof emails or Nigerian financial fraud.
The answer to the alt-right is more democracy
In the wake of pipe bombs and the Pittsburgh shooting, journalist and author David Neiwert says political violence in the U.S. really only goes one way.
The fight against an opposition ‘hellbent’ on taking away transgender rights
"[P]rogress really only goes in one direction."
In Western Alaska, home is disappearing beneath their feet
On the edge of the continent, climate change is threatening towns and a traditional way of life
Mongolia’s nomads are settling in the city
Driven from the countryside by climate change-related storms and droughts, nomads are taking their gers to the city—and causing environmental problems in the process.
One year after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Ricans search for promise on the mainland
'Before the hurricane, I would say we had a decent quality of life on the island. But now I'm like a stereotype. ... I'm more like a professional immigrant.'
Home is where you park it
Faced with a housing crisis, a group of RV dwellers found parking—and a community—in Berkeley. Then they were kicked out.
The broken road to refuge
“That night they called and said: ‘We know where you live, and we’re coming to kill you.’” — Follow one asylee's journey from Honduras to the United States.
Condition Blue
After a series of controversial shootings, can the Stockton Police win back their community?
In Oakland, a Tuff Shed to call home
For the city’s homeless, Tuff Sheds may be a path to permanent housing—or an excuse to displace people already living on the margins
‘I’m still here’
Ernestine Harris fought the bank and the government for the right to stay in her Atlanta home. And she won.
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