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Desert Time

Desert Time

Walking through Negev

by Mara Klein | Monday, December 02, 2019
The Future of...Gaining Immunity

Gaining Immunity

by Meredith Wadman | Monday, December 02, 2019
Fifty

Fifty

by Christian Wiman | Monday, December 02, 2019
Progress Report- Fighting for Freedom

Progress Report, Winter 2020

by Rebecca McCarthy | Monday, December 02, 2019
Two men dancing during a second-line parade in New Orleans

Following the Music

by Nima Taradji | Tuesday, September 03, 2019
Men standing in a prison yard behind a chain-link fence

Unlocking Prison Problems

Four questions on the future of incarceration

by Emily Bazelon | Tuesday, September 03, 2019
Whitewater river

The Girl Diving

A short excerpt from a novel-in-progress

by Daniel Woodrell | Tuesday, September 03, 2019
Exterior view of a greenhouse lit up at night

Progress Report, Autumn 2019

Old rice made new, women inventors, cli-fi hits the art world

by Rebecca McCarthy | Tuesday, September 03, 2019
A man and his dog sit in the cab of a druck, with the sun filtering in over ranchland.

Heritage Ranching

Preserving a way of life

by Katie Daniels | Monday, June 03, 2019
A wall of glaciers, colored in a gradient of blue

Speeding at a Glacial Pace

Four questions about the future of Antarctica

by Elizabeth Rush | Monday, June 03, 2019
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In the wake of Iranian airstrikes on Al Asad Air Base, the Defense Department is examining service members for traumatic stress injuries. President Trump this week dismissed the soldiers’ possible concussion symptoms as “headaches,” adding that he doesn’t “consider them very serious injuries, relative to other injuries that I’ve seen.” But as Bethany Vaccaro discovered after her brother Robert left for Iraq in 2006, “giving one’s life can come in more than one form.” Her essay in our summer 2009 issue explores the aftermath of Robert’s traumatic brain injury, both for him and for their family, after an explosive detonated outside his Army Humvee. His injury “defines our daily existence,” writes Vaccaro. “The ongoing process of rehabilitation … has tenaciously enmeshed each one of us, altering our plans, our family structure and interactions, our ideas about life and sacrifice, and most resolutely our belief that if he would only make it back home, everything would be okay.”