Lone-star ticks don't just pursue and bite people. The affliction they're spreading, an allergy to red meat known as alpha-gal syndrome, attacks a way of life.
In this upside-down world there'd be a pig like Ted Waters, who, one blue winter night outside Marjah, had his leg blown off by a bomb disguised as a guardrail.
Writing history as it happens often yields results that feel perishable. Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan's new book about Trump's second term transcends its genre, David Remnick writes.
As America's auto debt nears $1.7 trillion, repossessions are reaching levels not seen since the Great Recession. Inside an industry at the front line of the country's affordability crisis.