The failure of MTV’s Staten Island-based reality show and the fate of its cast members:

While Bridge & Tunnel hangs in programming purgatory, the DeBartolis are hamstrung by Draconian network contracts that reportedly don't allow them to have agents or managers or even talk about any of this publicly for five years. So while JWoww shills her own black bronzer line and Snooki slams into Italian police cars for $100,000 an episode, Gabriella and Brianna have been working respectively as a secretary and a pizza-order girl in Staten Island. The papers they signed as passports off Staten Island are effectively keeping them there.

The story of the 1977 Revolt at Cincinnati, and the men who changed the course of the NRA forever.

The Giant Pacific Octopus is, in the words of a Seattle conservationist, a “glamour animal.” It is also tasty. Therein lies the conflict.

A lesson in ethics.

A pivotal Civil Rights rally recalled, 50 years later.

An exploited celebrity’s long journey home.

How Hollywood falls for actresses who “act like a dude but look like a supermodel” – and then changes its mind.

On 20-somethings in America, or:

My screwed, coddled, self-absorbed, mocked, surprisingly resilient generation.

Personalized medicine may one day deliver routine medical miracles. But it wasn’t ready in time for Stephanie Lee.

How a 27-year-old went from PR underling to gatekeeper.

A reporter learns to slice lox—and digs into a Los Angeles landmark’s millions in debt.

How a brewery became more famous for what’s on its bottle than what’s in it.

Among other things, crows can recognize human faces—and train each other to avoid people they don’t like.

A local environmental activist fights to prepare her community for life beyond mining.

A leftist journalist’s bruising crusade against establishment Democrats—and their Russia obsession.

Children film themselves chewing, whispering and tapping to give their adult audience an ASMR buzz. But at what cost?

After Julie “Mama Julz” Richards’s own family was nearly destroyed by addiction, fighting back against meth became a personal crusade.

What prompts a woman to exit society and marry God? Inside a modern convent in Texas.

Transition House had to be true to its principles and then it had to leave them behind.

On life after you accomplish your lifelong goal.

Prince had grand plans for his autobiography, but only a few months to live.

What happened when 59-year-old Paralympian Angela Madsen set out to row from California to Hawaii.

There is so much talk now about the art of the film that we may be in danger of forgetting that most of the movies we enjoy are not works of art.

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