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The Aziz Ansari controversy was just the beginning of the trouble for the website.

The story of a lifelong addict and an unlikely friendship.

What the sensation of uncontrollable itch and the phantom limbs of amputees can tell us about how the brain works.

Six young men set out on a dead-calm sea to seek their fortunes. Suddenly they were hit by the worst gale in a century, and there wasn’t even time to shout. The article that eventually became The Perfect Storm.

Donald Trump assaulted me in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room 23 years ago. But he’s not alone on the list of awful men in my life.

In May 2018, schoolgirl Ana Kriégel was lured from her home, brought to an abandoned house, and murdered. A year later two 14-year-old boys were found guilty of her killing, becoming the youngest people in the history of Ireland to be convicted of murder.

For more than 20 years, Judith Sheindlin has dominated daytime ratings—by making justice in a complicated world look easy.

In just the past few years, one union has organized close to 10,000 Florida adjuncts, in what is one of the most remarkable and little-noticed large scale labor campaigns in the country.

A man named Tristan Beaudette was killed while camping in Malibu Creek State Park with his two young daughters. For residents, it became a true crime sensation. But for his family, it was something very different.

An Indian-American journalist navigates racism in the midst of a crime investigation.

A romance author accused her husband of poisoning her. Was it her wildest fiction yet?

At Facebook’s worst-performing content moderation site in North America, one contractor has died, and others say they fear for their lives.

For nearly a century, an oak in a German forest has helped lonely people find love—including the mailman who delivers its letters.

A leading sci-fi writer takes stock of China’s global rise.

“I went on a lesbian cruise and it blew up my entire life.”

For years, it was the largest portal for sex on the internet. Now its fate could shape the future of Silicon Valley.

Madewell’s authenticity problem, written by the great-grandson of the company’s founder.

Making sense of Donald Trump’s petulant reign.

On July 2017, a visitor to the Museum of Capitalism contributed a watch (from here on referred to as 'our watch') to the museum’s artifact drive. In his form, he noted that Folsom & Co., a supposedly San Francisco-based company, used Instagram to offer the watch 'free,' but with $7 shipping.

An upstart football league goes horribly awry during its first season,.

Five years ago, the flight vanished into the Indian Ocean. Officials on land know more about why than they dare to say.

For the purposes of this essay, I’ll call it ‘ambient privacy’—the understanding that there is value in having our everyday interactions with one another remain outside the reach of monitoring, and that the small details of our daily lives should pass by unremembered. What we do at home, work, church, school, or in our leisure time does not belong in a permanent record. Not every conversation needs to be a deposition.

The writer on his father’s religious devotion to personal style. Among the maxims: “the turtleneck is the most flattering thing a man can wear”; “there is nothing like a fresh burn”; and “always wear white to the face.”

Carried away by love—for risk and for each other—two of the world’s best freedivers went to the limits of their sport. Only one came back.