drugs Smoking heroin doesn't make it any safer Séamus Bellamy

crime Homeland Security sting nets dark net drug dealers Séamus Bellamy

events Slow Impact is a four-day event bringing home the incremental effects of skateboarding Elías Villoro

books Tears of the Trufflepig is a head-shakingly brilliant novel about contraband animals, Mexico and a labyrinthine conspiracy Elías Villoro

animals Never mind Cocaine Bear, this is a real cocaine cat David Pescovitz

Business Going out with a whimper: the story of Bang Energy Devin Nealy

drugs More than 10,000 Fentanyl pills in candy boxes seized at Los Angeles International Airport David Pescovitz

music Peter Murphy in rehab, Bauhaus cancels current tour David Pescovitz

meat "Quantities of intercepted bologna are so large it's hard to believe there are any pigs left in the world," says reporter about bologna seizures on Texas border Jennifer Sandlin

animals Gentleman accused of giving meth to his emotional support monkey wants him back David Pescovitz

PSAs Young man succumbs to beatniks' peer pressure, smokes pot, gets a D on a test Mark Frauenfelder

fake barriers Trump's wall was sawed through 3,272 times in the last 3 years with cheap tools Carla Sinclair

Spoken Word with Electronics HEAR: "Headlines Like These" — 1950's Spoken Word on 'Hopeless Teenage Dope Addicts' Ethan Persoff

Science The scientific similarities between falling in love and doing cocaine Devin Nealy

bitcoin The wild world of bitcoin erotica Mark Frauenfelder

Spoken Word with Electronics Remembering the Wife Swapping Crisis of the 1960s Ethan Persoff

Spoken Word with Electronics The Realist Archive Project launches a sequel: "The Other Scenes Inventory Report" Ethan Persoff

News Trump pardons Steve Bannon, Elliot Broidy, Lil Wayne, others — 73 pardons, 70 commutations Xeni Jardin