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Top Stories published by Esquire in June of 2018

June

The Friend: Love Is Not a Big Enough Word

His wife was just thirty-four. They had two little girls. The cancer was everywhere, and the parts of dying that nobody talks about were about to start. His best…

How Marijuana Turned Me Into a Distance Runner

Getting stoned out of my mind made me a monster marathon runner, but not invincible.

ALYSSA EDWARDS’ UNLIKELY JOURNEY TO RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE FAN FAVORITE

“When I morph into Alyssa, I’m like this… Well, this creature, everything that Justin couldn’t be.”

TAYLOR SHERIDAN HAS BECOME OUR GENERATION’S GREATEST WESTERN STORYTELLER

This century’s John Ford has reinvented the genre for an era in which drug cartels, developers, and fracking companies divide the…

Trump Has Access to Everything a Dictator Could Want

He is consolidating power based on deceit at an alarming rate, and getting more popular as he goes.

Oh My F*cking Gotti

It really is as bad as you’ve heard.

THIS PLACE IS CRAZY

Our mental-health-care system is broken. Ten of every eleven psychiatric patients housed by the government are incarcerated. Here’s what this crisis looks like from the inside — a…

This Performance Is a Uniquely American Brand of Authoritarianism

Some Trump supporters know it’s a shtick. That doesn’t make the consequences any less real.

Broadcast News Taught Me How to Be Human

James L. Brooks’s 1987 comedy isn’t just a media satire — it’s cultural comfort food.

ON THE ROAD WITH BETO O’ROURKE, THE DEMOCRAT RACING TO UNSEAT TED CRUZ

The underdog candidate let us tag along on a 653-mile campaign swing through the Texas panhandle.

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