The Forgotten Villages of Ukraine’s ‘Zero Line’ - Rolling Stone

The van bursts out of a treeline and there is black smoke in the distance. I see it from the right side window as we turn east down a dirt road. “Where’s that coming from?” I ask the aid workers in the front seat. “I think where we’re going.”

Putin Continues to Terrorize This Ukraine City, Long After His Troops Left - Rolling Stone

In Kherson, almost everyone has a story of the occupation or its aftermath.

Two weeks ago a mortar landed down there,” Valera says, pointing to the west. He says it as if he is discussing the weather. For the free citizens of Kherson, he might as well be.

The Battle For Cop City - Rolling Stone, September Issue 2022

During my final hours in the forest, a slim person with buzzed hair and scattered tattoos approaches me at camp. They introduce themselves as Cardboard and say they’ve been living across the creek, in the trees, for more than seven months. I ask why they’d chosen to stay on that side, to sacrifice even more comfort and assume even more risk.

“I fucking hate the police,” they say. “And I want to be free.”

Fear and Slowing on the D.C. Beltway: Inside the People’s Convoy’s Big-Rig Political Sideshow - Rolling Stone

Dan tells me he is doing this for his children, to whom he gave his dairy farm. “I’m convinced we have about three months,” he says, until the Democrats take all of that away in some kind of America-ending event. And so Dan is on the road to prevent that.

Trapped in Kharkiv’s Bloody Bubble - Rolling Stone

The dead Russian soldier’s body was still lying there in the snow where it had been on Friday. The Ukrainian soldiers hadn’t moved it, because of sloth or rage or simple preoccupation with the enemy army doing its best to put them in the same pose, spread-eagled on their backs surrounded by an aura of blood.

‘Absolutely Terrifying’: Kharkiv Waits as War Closes In - Rolling Stone

The anxiety gnaws at you every minute that you are awake and most of the minutes you are asleep. It jolts you out of dreams. I meet Ilya, 24, in line for the one supermarket that is open in the slushy snow and my hands are shaking a bit typing on my phone as he speaks, but probably just because it is cold. “It’s absolutely terrifying,” he says. He keeps fidgeting with his mask and swaying back and forth and neither of us are doing particularly well with eye contact. “From this point, I have no words,” he says. “I didn’t expect it.… I didn’t expect it was going to go this far.”

‘It Is Impossible to Leave’: Ukrainians Scramble as They Wake Up to Russia’s War - Rolling Stone

The war was late, an hour past the 4:00 a.m. deadline set by the U.S. government’s last dire warning of impending violence — a final indignity after weeks and months of agonizing, paralyzing, excruciating waiting and hoping that it would not come. And then, it did.

Protests Erupted in New York City as Police Clashed With Demonstrators Over the Killing of George Floyd - Business Insider

"It's the tale of two Americas, you know?" said Kerwyn, a 32-year-old father of three who's lived in Brooklyn his whole life. "We're not our parents or our grandparents or their parents. We tried the Martin way. But now people are exercising the Malcolm way."

As the Strike Approached in Chicago, Teachers Taught Labor - The Atlantic

“I asked the kids, ‘Do you want to know what we’re fighting about?’” said one teacher. They did. As labor negotiations between the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) and Chicago Public Schools (CPS) started to make the local news last month, Chicago students began asking questions that their teachers’ original syllabuses didn’t cover.

“Like Iowa Should Have Felt”: Scenes from Bernie Sanders Victory March in New Hampshire - Rolling Stone

Dispatch for Rolling Stone magazine from the New Hampshire primary election.