A statewide movement wants to remove populist Mike Dunleavy from office.

The life and death of OR4, the patriarch of Oregon’s reintroduced wolves.

Translation of an exclusive interview with Syrian President Bashar al_Assad:

“Have they not realised that since the Vietnam War, all the wars their predecessors have waged have failed? Have they not learned that they have gained nothing from these wars but the destruction of the countries they fought, which has had a destabilising effect on the Middle East and other parts of the world? Have they not comprehended that all of these wars have not made people in the region appreciate them or believe in their policies?”

A profile of Google’s new CEO, “the most powerful tech giant you’ve never heard of.”

The ‘repo men’ of the high seas.

The deserted villages of Senegal.

The afterlife of a thoughtless, cruel insult.

How the world’s biggest casino ran out of luck.

On nomadism, toxicity, and the question of home.

Ghost towns and nuclear waste sites are among what you find in the Nevada desert.

On the experimental favela police force UPP (aka “The Big Skull”) and their efforts to clean Rio’s largest slum in advance of the World Cup and Olympics.

The legacy of a phantom bluesman.

A reporter lounges at the exclusive club for months to study the beautiful people sipping rosé poolside—and whether they’re actually doing any work.

Robert Blake, Bonny Lee Bakley, and the misery of celebrity.

Visiting a cattle market in Karachi, right before the feast of Eid.

Investigating the unsolved murder of Malcolm X’s grandson.

Convicted and facing jail time plus a crippling fine in Sweden, the founders of the torrent site The Pirate’s Bay have scattered across the world towards new lives: fatherhood in Laos, a junkie’s life in Phnom Penh, and start-up work in Berlin.

For some workers, the pandemic brought new meaning to a nationwide movement to raise the minimum wage.

Joe Ford, car detective, searches the world for stolen rare automobiles on the black market.

As mass demonstrations against police brutality continue across the country, thousands gather in New York to demonstrate against generations of police brutality and racial injustice in America.

Jane Jacobs has a somewhat ambiguous legacy—or at least one that's contested by different factions in the present-day debate over cities and urbanism—but to me her most important idea is encapsulated in the title and spirit of this piece. It's old and, I think, utterly prescient about what successive waves of planning fads miss. The purpose of urban space is for people to use it. A great place is a place where people want to be.

-M. Yglesias

As the country heads into a dangerous new phase of the pandemic, the government’s management of the P.P.E. crisis has left the private sector still straining to meet anticipated demand.

Colombian traffickers have a new smuggling method of choice: specially designed submarines capable of carrying 10 tons of cocaine and covering 2,000 miles without refueling.

In an excerpt from her book, the late Northern Irish journalist joined a search for a missing youth.

On the battle over solar farms in the Mojave desert. An excerpt from Madrigal’s new book, Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology.