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The video shows a suspect walking away from the police when an officer drives onto the scene and immediately opens fire. Moments later, the 17-year-old Laquan McDonald is dead — shot 16 times. On the face of it, this is yet another case of unreasonable use of force ...

I remember my first caipirinha. It was the summer after my freshman year of college, and my family had just arrived in Brazil. Like any thirsty college kid who had a few, not so graceful encounters with alcohol, I wanted to use the system to my advantage. As we were ...

The Colorado Supreme Court began hearing two cases that challenge Longmont’s fracking ban and Fort Collins’ fracking moratorium on Wednesday, Dec. 9...

Activists stand with black tape covering their mouths, holding large empty plates and posters that read “Not one more” and “We stand with Shoeb.” One simply says “Solidarity” in large black letters. They are standing outside of the Denver Contract Detention Facility ...

I wish I could say my passion for Colombia was born from a deep intellectual yearning — from the pages of a Gabriel García Márquez novel or a love for Spanish Baroque painting or a lifelong exploration of the Spanish language — but that’s not the case. Not even a ...

I’m sitting on the porch in a low wooden chair in front of the open doors leading to the common room. The wooden porch runs the length of the building and is covered by a grass-thatched roof that absorbs the rain falling outside. It’s summer in Thailand, and it’s ...

We left the old merchants’ quarters with a flat bottle of champagne and handfuls of meats and cheeses. The wind brought fishy air from the Saône down the corridor and broke up the reverberations of bistro laughter that waited like helpless dogs left at home for their...

Back then, Glen didn’t sleep much. Rumor was he had apnea or some other sleep disorder, but it seemed to me that the middle of the night was just when most farmers chose to kill themselves, so 2 a.m. tended to be rush hour around Glen’s place in Oklahoma City...

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World leaders from more than 190 countries will convene in Paris during the first two weeks of December for the long-awaited United Nations Climate Change Conference. Will the governments of the world finally pass a binding global treaty aimed at reducing the most ...

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The first time I saw the Pawnee National Grassland, I was on a quest to find a ghost town I’d heard about. It shared its name with my place of birth; a small town in Oklahoma called Purcell. Aside from the name, I think my curiosity is the only thing these two places...