Colorado’s San Luis Valley was a wildlife poacher’s paradise. Then an undercover federal agent arrived.

By Nick Davidson


I’ve Gone to Look for America

Conversations and revelations about an ailing nation along Interstate 95.

Words by Masha Hamilton
Photographs by Cheney Orr


“There Will Be No Mercy”

When Ethiopia’s government launched a brutal two-year war in Tigray, the region’s largest hospital was overrun with victims. The medical staff risked everything to treat the wounded—and believe the world ignored a genocide.

By Drew Philp


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