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“You are not your job.” The former staff writer finds a newfound joy in his restaurant career.

For a century, the humble paper towel has dominated public toilets. But a new generation of hand dryers has sparked a war for loo supremacy.

Young sisters, an old newspaper, and notions of time.

On sex education and why people are still so uncomfortable talking about it.

Sabika Sheikh, a Muslim exchange student from Pakistan with dreams of changing the world, struck up an unlikely friendship with an evangelical Christian girl. The two became inseparable—until the day a fellow student opened fire.

In late 1960s London, famed psychoanalyst R.D. Laing created a radical asylum—one with no doctors, no locks, and no limits.

The answer to the disparity in death rates has everything to do with the lived experience of being a black woman in America.

How HGTV changed a city.

Riots in Athens, the shadowy Vatopaidi monastery, and a quarter million dollars in debt for every citizen. Welcome to Greece.

A fight that has nothing to do with gun control is ripping through the grieving community.

The world’s largest jewelry retailer was a cesspool of harassment and unfair treatment of women who worked there.

“The key differentiator of Super-Aggregators is that they have three-sided markets: users, content providers (which may include users!), and advertisers. Both content providers and advertisers want the user’s attention, and the latter are willing to pay for it.”

The untold story of Alek Minassian, a year after the deadliest mass murder in Toronto history

A graveyard, a stutter, and Ray-Bans.

A conversation.

Skiing and partying at the sport’s most dangerous race.

In three decades of advocating for prison abolition, the activist and scholar has helped transform how people think about criminal justice.

How coach Gregg Popovich’s love of fine wine led to a 20-year run of success in the NBA.

Last fall, when the deadliest blaze in America in a century blew through Northern California, thousands of people—including those in the tiny community of Helltown—were forced to flee. This is the story of four friends who stayed to fight.

The former NBA player is forever linked to the murder of his girlfriend.

The Ceasefire Babies was what they called us. Those too young to remember the worst of the terror because we were either in nappies or just out of them when the Provisional IRA ceasefire was called. I was four, Jonny was three. We were the Good Friday Agreement generation, destined to never witness the horrors of war but to reap the spoils of peace. The spoils just never seemed to reach us.

The organization’s leadership is focused on external threats, but the real crisis is of its own making.

Interviews with a receptionist, a factory worker, and others about life on the job.

Two struggling friends attempt to document a lake monster.