By Kyutae Lee
We’d been incredibly close when I was a child. Then, in 1994 she went away and never came back. Now here we were, taking to the road with no real plan after her cancer diagnosis.
By Clément Thoby
Forrest Fenn, an eccentric millionaire, liked to engage with those seeking his hoard but left more questions than answers.
By Adeshola Makinde
Florida voters overwhelmingly supported restoring rights for those with felony convictions. But tens of thousands of people remain disenfranchised.
By Erre Gálvez
The post office could be key to people voting during the pandemic but perverse financial rules and Trump’s hostility put that at risk.
By Ricardo Santos
Tom McCarthy examines how three appeals courts are becoming more conservative with the arrival of judges picked by Trump – and what that means for cases on issues like voting rights.
By Kike Congrains
When the bird who dominated Oakland’s rose garden turned violent, the question of his fate caused “rifts that will never heal”.
By Cat Finnie
From singing birthday cards to baby food pouches, a growing trend of mixing materials is making recycling even harder.
By Ben Hickey
I had been using sex as an ill-prescribed antidepressant, something to soothe me. Abstinence, I thought, was the only way to break my habit.
By Erik Carter
OnlyFans allows content creators to self-identify and cultivate a fanbase on their own terms.
By Adam Maida
“He who controls redistricting can control Congress,” Karl Rove famously said – and the Republican State Leadership Committee is set to do just that.
By Jackson Gibbs
My dad has one passion: extraterrestrials. He joined a group of alien chasers, but being a black Dominican among mostly white believers was challenging.
By Julien Posture
Illustration: Julien Posture/The Guardian
I’ve perpetuated the illusion that my family lives a stable life, but that was an absurd delusion, and it feels insane to continue as we have.
By Nhung Lê
As the meme has become more prominent online, its meaning has become confused – with real-life Karens caught in the crosshairs.
By Johnalynn Holland
The coronavirus has devastated US senior care homes. We spoke to frontline staff about their grief and heartbreak – and how they’re trying to keep their loved ones safe.
Distraction and diversion are your friends when a loved one has dementia. I wanted to dislodge this memory that defined his generation in the way that the killings of Trayvon Martin and George Floyd have and will define later ones.
By Kimberly Salt
As coronavirus changes the way women experience pregnancy, doulas are caught between helping clients and the limitations caused by the pandemic.
By Mikyung Lee
Illustration: Mikyung Lee/The Guardian
Millions of Americans can’t afford the prescription drugs they require to survive, forcing them into bankruptcy, trips to Mexico or cutting off utilities.
By Sarah Mazzetti
Medication abortions have are a safe and accessible method of terminating pregnancy, but they have been targeted by onerous FDA restrictions.
Childcare has become central to US economic recovery, but daycares are struggling to safely reopen during a pandemic and recession.
By Sonny Ross
Politically active young people are often championed as the Earth’s great hope to reverse the climate crisis – but many believe we’ve already passed the tipping point.
