Since being treated for multiple myeloma this spring, 1 Kevin Drum says the health care debate has become much more personal­—and that his hair has started growing back ("Party of No Escape"); check out an animated version of 2 Hudson Christie's oven-baked sculpture at MotherJones.com.

Mark Schapiro ("Over a Barrel") is the author of Carbon Shock.

After digging into a Silicon Valley-like health records company, Patrick Caldwell wishes his office also had a tree house ("Epic Fail").

Having spent three years covering mass shootings, 3 Mark Follman was eager to investigate a possible solution ("Trigger Warnings").

While in West Virginia ("The Fall of King Coal"), Tim Murphy kept crossing the century-old path of labor leader Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, this magazine's namesake; Kentucky-born photographer 4 Stacy Kranitz has extensively documented Appalachia.

Josh Harkinson ("Cowed") still enjoys his milk and cereal, but he feels a bit guilty about it.

5 Pema Levy used Florida's open-records law to obtain 1,400 pages of transcripts documenting Jeb Bush's treatment of ex-felons petitioning to restore their voting rights ("I'll Be the Judge of That").

6 Inae Oh enjoyed having an excuse to binge rewatch Transparent before her Q&A with creator Jill Soloway ("Trans Mission").