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Sada Abe, a former geisha, became a sensation in 1930s Japan after erotically asphyxiating her married lover, cutting off his penis and testicles and carrying them in her kimono for days.

A profile of Aretha Franklin.

Is Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions existential threat, a last resort, or both?

Ben Shapiro’s fans apparently think he is very smart. It’s not clear why.

The director’s provocative new film will change the way you think about racism

On returning to Britain, which is no longer home.

Inside Arnold’s manic, occasionally dishonest quest to find tapes of Trump using slurs on the set of The Apprentice.

On the life and career of Richard Pryor, as he neared the end of both.

The hit on Sergei Skripal.

For the past 16 months, he had worked as a mole, posing as a militant jihadist in the Islamic State while passing critical information to a secret branch of Iraq’s national intelligence agency. His record was stunning: He had foiled 30 planned vehicle-bomb attacks and 18 suicide bombers, according to Abu Ali al-Basri, the agency’s director. Captain Sudani also gave the agency a direct line to some of the Islamic State’s senior commanders in Mosul.

The debate over what really killed the dinosaurs is still raging.

“It takes this huge amount of will and energy for anything to happen to you.”

Twelve years ago, a Saudi Arabian man, whom federal authorities had long suspected of having ties to terrorism, was sentenced to life in prison on multiple counts of unlawful sexual contact. To this day, al-Turki has maintained that he’s innocent and was instead the target of post-9/11 anti-Muslim sentiment.

At a South Korean laboratory, a once-disgraced doctor is replicating hundreds of deceased pets for the rich and famous.

Over eight years, through millions of letters, the staff of the White House mailroom read the unfiltered story of a nation.

Nothing can match Cuban post-season baseball fever.

On the emergence of morality and spirituality on the American left.

A botched tattoo; alternative therapy.

On the nature of violence.

When my brother was twelve, I found six mice nailed to the wall of the abandoned tree house in the woods near our apartment. He spent a lot of time there. It seemed to me the little mouse faces were frozen in agony. As though they’d been alive when he’d hammered the nails through them.

The Pentagon’s failed campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan left a generation of soldiers with little to fight for but one another.

“Success for us will be determined by our ability to move faster than everyone else in this space.”

An indicted journalist reflects on conspiracy in today’s America

They got heart transplants on the same day. Then they fell in love.

The event evolves.