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What Remains

For the past 148 years, Yosemite’s Lyell Glacier has taught us about the Earth — how it was created, where it was going, and now, how it might end.

By Daniel Duane

Photographs by Nicholas Albrecht

‘‘You Got Your High School Diploma?’’

What happens when you put a classroom on wheels and park it in the poorest neighborhoods of San Francisco?

By Elizabeth Weil

Photographs by Eugene Riley and Chris Shurn

Her Time

Debra Koosed was diagnosed with dementia at 65. That’s when she decided she no longer wanted to live.

By Katie Engelhart

Illustrations by Nick Runge

The Believer

After a mysterious freestyle ski run in last year’s Winter Olympics, people called Elizabeth Swaney a scam artist and the worst athlete in the history of the games. They’re wrong.

By Davy Rothbart

Photographs by Erin Brethauer

Expecting

The pregnant teen, the villager giving birth far from home, the woman imprisoned for miscarrying: pregnancy in El Salvador, where women can’t choose where, or whether, to give birth

Photographs and text by Nadia Shira Cohen

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A glimpse inside the lives of asylum-seekers, new couples, prisoners, and pen pals through their letters, texts, WhatsApp messages, and Facebook posts

Text by Ann Babe, Alice Driver, Haley Cohen Gilliland, Raha Naddaf, Joy Shan, and Amy Wallace

Photographs by Naomi McColloch

Illustrations by Aidan Koch

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An Incubator Kitchen Creating a more Diverse Food Scene in the Bay Area

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To Die For: A New York City Cemetery Odyssey

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Backstage

Two formerly incarcerated photographers on their first magazine assignment

By Douglas McGray

Photographs by Brian L. Frank

Meanwhile

Creating Land in an Expanding City

By Wendy MacNaughton

The California Sunday Magazine

What Remains

For the past 148 years, Yosemite’s Lyell Glacier has taught us about the Earth — how it was created, where it was going, and now, how it might end.

‘‘You Got Your High School Diploma?’’

What happens when you put a classroom on wheels and park it in the poorest neighborhoods of San Francisco?

Her Time

Debra Koosed was diagnosed with dementia at 65. That’s when she decided she no longer wanted to live.

The Believer

After a mysterious freestyle ski run in last year’s Winter Olympics, people called Elizabeth Swaney a scam artist and the worst athlete in the history of the games. They’re wrong.

Expecting

The pregnant teen, the villager giving birth far from home, the woman imprisoned for miscarrying: pregnancy in El Salvador, where women can’t choose where, or whether, to give birth

Sponsor Content

Test Drive the Future: The Power to Start Something Bigger

Re: re: re: re:

A glimpse inside the lives of asylum-seekers, new couples, prisoners, and pen pals through their letters, texts, WhatsApp messages, and Facebook posts

Sponsor Content

An Incubator Kitchen Creating a more Diverse Food Scene in the Bay Area

To Die For: A New York City Cemetery Odyssey

Backstage

Two formerly incarcerated photographers on their first magazine assignment

Meanwhile

Creating Land in an Expanding City

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For the past 148 years, Yosemite’s Lyell Glacier has taught us about the Earth — how it was created, where it was going, and now, how it might end.

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‘‘You Got Your High School Diploma?’’

What happens when you put a classroom on wheels and park it in the poorest neighborhoods of San Francisco?

Her Time

Debra Koosed was diagnosed with dementia at 65. That’s when she decided she no longer wanted to live.

The Believer

After a mysterious freestyle ski run in last year’s Winter Olympics, people called Elizabeth Swaney a scam artist and the worst athlete in the history of the games. They’re wrong.

Expecting

The pregnant teen, the villager giving birth far from home, the woman imprisoned for miscarrying: pregnancy in El Salvador, where women can’t choose where, or whether, to give birth

Test Drive the Future: The Power to Start Something Bigger

Re: re: re: re:

A glimpse inside the lives of asylum-seekers, new couples, prisoners, and pen pals through their letters, texts, WhatsApp messages, and Facebook posts

An Incubator Kitchen Creating a more Diverse Food Scene in the Bay Area

To Die For: A New York City Cemetery Odyssey

Backstage

Two formerly incarcerated photographers on their first magazine assignment

Meanwhile

Creating Land in an Expanding City

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