Slumdog Millionaire, the 2008 Mumbai attacks, and the arrival of “New India” in the American imagination.

A 13 year old gets a webcam and starts doing dirty shows online, ending up running a smut business in Mexico with his deadbeat father.

A trip to the Famous Poets Society convention/contest in Reno.

Inside the conflict that has caused more deaths than any since WWII—with no end in sight.

Its editors still live in different cities, still work different careers, and still treat Boing Boing as a (lucrative) hobby.

Most of the country is trying to keep guns out of schools. A town in rural Idaho is taking the opposite approach.

Two floors of a building in prime Brooklyn for $1000 a month seemed too good to be true. It was.

In Utah, an unlikely leader is looking to end the state’s land-use wars.

There are 1.7 million active Uber riders in London, about half the daily ridership of the Tube. Three years ago, there were 5,000.

In the throes of an epidemic, researchers investigate how to inoculate against the disease.

Balancing the creation of a house with living in it as a home.

The Obama administration was supposed to fight corporate concentration. In the airline industry, at least, it didn’t work out that way.

A profile of Donald Trump’s son-in-law and de facto campaign manager.

“We have a lot in common. We go to the same shrink.”

He was supposed to be the Dallas Cowboys’ star running back. Instead, Joseph Randle is in prison.

A profile of the Oklahoma City point guard, who is averaging a triple-double in his first season without Kevin Durant.

Somewhere in the desert, buried under a mountain of sand and rock, is an ancient shipwreck. Maybe.

In Arctic Siberia, Russian scientists are trying to stave off catastrophic climate change—by resurrecting an Ice Age biome complete with lab-grown woolly mammoths.

Sean Spicer and a new era in the briefing room.

In the era of cord-cutting and mobile viewing, ESPN is at the crossroads.

Why do America’s black gay and bisexual men have a higher H.I.V. rate than any country in the world?

A minute-by-minute account of one of the worst sailing disasters in American history.

In 1993, his rookie season, more than 1,700 boys were named after Shaquille O’Neal. Now they’ve grown up.

The residents of Colorado Springs undertook a radical experiment in government. Here’s what they got.

As a father succumbs to lung cancer, his son tries to recreate his personality in the form of a chatbot.