Dumba has spent her life performing in circuses around Europe, but in recent years animal rights activists have been campaigning to rescue her. When it looked like they might succeed, Dumba and her owners disappeared.
When Brayden Bushby was charged with the death of Barbara Kentner, Indigenous faith in Canada’s legal system was put to the test.
A convert dies in the Arizona desert and the secrets of a controversial guru start spilling out.
How billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Warren Buffett pay so little in income tax compared to their massive wealth—sometimes, even nothing.
How Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld became Yale Law pariahs.
For some Americans, history isn’t the story of what actually happened; it’s the story they want to believe.
“It is a beautiful hand: strong, with long, slender fingers and smooth skin, its nails ridgeless and pink. If you didn’t know Jonathan Koch—if you first met him, say, on the courts at the Calabasas Tennis & Swim Club—you might not suspect that his hand previously belonged to someone else.”
Flordelis became famous as a gospel singer, a pastor, and a politician. Then her husband was killed.
Throughout 2020, the notion that the novel coronavirus leaked from a lab was off-limits. Those who dared to push for transparency say toxic politics and hidden agendas kept us in the dark.
Oral histories from the California wildfires.
A bankrupt music promoter wanted a payday. His detoxing son needed a fresh start. But when their plan for an epic Nas concert in Angola went awry, they found themselves trapped thousands of miles from home.
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A study of resilience in does and other female creatures.
The clock is a useful social tool, but it is also deeply political: It benefits some, marginalizes others and blinds us from a true understanding of our own bodies and the world around us.
At age 17, Eustace Conway moved into the North Carolina woods. He hasn’t compromised since.
A little alcohol can boost creativity and strengthen social ties. But there’s nothing moderate, or convivial, about the way many Americans drink today.
In Scott Kimball, the FBI thought it had found a high-value informant who could help solve big cases. What it got instead was lies, betrayal, and murder.
Rose Eveleth is the host of Flash Forward and the author of Flash Forward: An Illustrated Guide to Possible (and Not So Possible) Tomorrows.
“If I didn’t have that pretty bizarrely insatiable drive to do this stuff and understand things, I don’t know if I’d still be doing this. The curiosity index has to be high in order to make the rest of it worth it. Because otherwise, what’s the point?”
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Climate change is bringing tourism and tension to Longyearbyen on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.
Can the International Swimming League take on the IOC and Vladimir Putin?
The Jackass takes stock of a surprisingly long, hilariously painful, and unusually influential career.
Trying to make sense of a fragmented, disparate musical tradition.
A 2018 profile of the tennis star.
Kurtis Minder finds the cat-and-mouse energy of outsmarting criminal syndicates deeply satisfying.
Chicago’s predictive policing program told a man he would be involved with a shooting, but it couldn’t determine which side of the gun he would be on. Instead, it made him the victim of a violent crime.
More than a decade ago, a prominent academic was exposed for having faked her Cherokee ancestry. Why has her career continued to thrive?
