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A Free-Market Plan to Save the American West From Drought
A maverick investor is buying up water rights in the West. Could his plan solve the region’s water crisis?
China Requires Approval for Foreign Firms to Publish Online
Shreedutta Chidanada takes a look at limited overs cricket’s five best spinners since the start of 2015.
A Surging Group of American Teens Are Excelling At Advanced Math. Why?
What’s behind the surge in American teens who are highly fluent in high-order math.
China Could Beat Hollywood by 2017
 China’s movie industry is becoming a dominant force. 
Why It's So Hard To Run An Abortion Clinic
Why it's so hard to open an abortion clinic - and why so many are closing.
Could This Banker Save the South China Tiger From Extinction?
Can Stuart Bray get his South China tigers back to South China?
Why Attacking ISIS Won’t Make Americans Safer
Presidential candidates claim that attacking ISIS will make Americans safer. The opposite is true.
Three Days Behind the Counter at a Vegas Gun Shop
Three days behind the gun counter in Las Vegas.
Planned Parenthood - A Latina Lifeline Under Fire
Planned Parenthood is the leading provider of reproductive health services in the United States, and now the most misunderstood and attacked. The crisis is vivid in Florida, home to the country's largest Caribbean Latino population.
Will the Supreme Court Just Disappear?
Its power is derived from custom and deference. How old-fashioned.
The Netflix of Africa Doesn’t Need Hollywood to Win
Does the low-budget, DIY, Nollywood-movie-streaming, "Netflix of Africa" have enough of a lead to hold off the real Netflix?
How Scalia Kept the Little Guys Out of Court
Antonin Scalia changed the rules on who could sue, and not in a way that helped consumers and employees.
How Do You Stop the Biggest Gas Leak Ever?
Plugging the biggest gas leak on record.
Inside a Plot to Overthrow the President of the Gambia
What happened when 11 audacious exiles armed themselves for a violent night in the Gambia.
India Internet Ruling Blocks Facebook 'Free Basics' Program
In a city where the nights are ruled by music, a twentysomething Swede is running the show.
How America Is Putting Itself Back Together
Most Americans believe the country is going to hell. They’re wrong. What a three-year journey by single-engine plane reveals about reinvention and renewal and about how the Second Gilded Age might end.
Oil & Stocks Take the Plunge
Wherever crude goes, equities go. What will it take to restore some rationality to the market?
The Teddy Bear Needs A Hug
In Louisiana, a fight is brewing over the country's most endangered Bruin.
Welcome to the Age of Robot Animals
Why build robots when you can just tweak animals?
The Female Solidarity, Have-It-All, Feel-Good Machine
Feminism is being branded and sold like never before. Who is it really helping?
Zika Is the Next Front in the Mosquito Wars
 Based on damage from malaria and dengue, the spread of Zika will prove costly.
An Inside Look At The Life Of A War Photographer
Photojournalist Lynsey Addario has been to hell and back.
When Whitney Hit The High Note
Ten days after the U.S. entered into war, Whitney Houston didn’t just sing the national anthem at Super Bowl XXV - she owned it. This is the story of her moment in time.
Who Owns the Sun?
Warren Buffett controls Nevada's legacy utility. Elon Musk is behind the solar company that's upending the market. Let the fun begin.
The 158 Billion Barrel Woman
Can Elham Hassanzadeh get the oil flowing in Iran?
The Battle Over Minimum Wage Rages On
The battle over minimum wage rages on, no more so than in the franchise world.
China's Capital Flight
Money is pouring out of China as rapidly as it once poured in. That’s a dilemma for Xi Jinping.
A Plutocrat's Case for Raising the Minimum Wage
Can the venture capitalist Nick Hanauer convince rich people that it’s in their interest to raise the minimum wage?
What Was Volkswagen Thinking?
On the origins of corporate evil - and idiocy.
Meet the Two Brothers Making Millions Off the Refugee Crisis in Scandinavia
Meet the multimillionaires making a killing off the refugee crisis in Scandinavia.