The industry that fights bed bugs is growing, but the only real winners are the pests themselves.

On the questions DNA tests answer and the new ones they create.

Collusion, sabotage, violence—inside Montreal’s no-holds-barred snow removal racket.

An academic in Calgary lives an extreme low-carbon lifestyle. But he really doesn’t want to make you feel weird about it.

Morcellation was supposed to make gynecological surgeries easier on women. Instead, is it killing them.

During World War II, the indigenous Aleut people were forced into camps. 10% died.

Why hundreds of Buddhist monks moved from Taiwan to Prince Edward Island, buying up thousands of acres of land in the process.

How OxyContin permeated one small town.

Putting killer animals on trial.

“It’s striking that for all the talk about polarization in the US, the Tea Party Movement and Occupy Wall Street are entirely non-violent. Overseas, no one expected the Arab Spring protests to be as nonviolent as they were,” Pinker wrote in an email. The threat of overwhelming reprisal from authorities may have brought some peace to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, but Pinker also pointed to research that, today, “nonviolent protest movements achieve their aims far more often than violent ones.” Still, the story of violence’s decline contains much violence, and America is no exception.

An essay on the evolving narrative of martyrdom in the Islamist and secular worlds.

Brooklyn, Illinois has one of the most dense clusters of strip clubs and rubdown parlors in the entire country, drawing patrons from nearby St. Louis and its suburbs. Inside the clubs with the dancers, a strip club scholar, the mayor, and the regulars whose dollars keep the depressed local economy afloat.

Kurdistan is the safest and most stable region in Iraq and at the center of its modern history is Amna Surak Prison, ground zero for both a genocide and an uprising.