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

On the elegance and utility of the rice cooker.

A profile of Rafael Pérez, an infamously corrupt LAPD officer and the inspiration behind the Vic Mackey character on The Shield.

“Poor white Americans’ current crisis shouldn’t have caught the rest of the country as off guard as it has.”

How the “biggest grow op willing to publish its address” could make Canada an international pioneer in the legalization and commercialization of weed.

The director of The Exorcist visits the Vatican’s 91-year-old in-house exorcist in Rome.

In many countries, journalists are being targeted because of the role they play in ensuring a free and informed society.

The decade-long journey of a novel–Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding–through the unpredictable world of book publishing.

An actor, fresh from prison, attempts to reconnect with his son in 1950s California.

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A Q&A:

My mother was called to school frequently because I was yelling out things in class, quips in class, and because I would hand in compositions that they thought were in poor taste, or too sexual. Many, many times she was called to school.

How fight coach Greg Jackson, once dubbed “the Philosopher King of MMA,” does his job.

Phil Locke made millions charging working people 400% interest. Then he had a change of heart.

Pvt. Felix Hall died in the only known murder of its kind on a U.S. military base.

“The whole thing has a sort of Taylor Swift-meets-jihad feel.”

The making and near unmaking of Paul Thomas Anderson’s breakout film.

A Black Lives Matter confrontation pitted neighbor against neighbor—and displayed the raw power of a social media flash mob.

An interview with “one of the most influential data gurus” in electoral politics.

Tracing the path of one of the world’s most in-demand minerals from deadly mines in Congo to your phone.

How the President could endanger the official records of one of the most consequential periods in American history.

While much of the Levin report describes past history, the Goldman section describes an ongoing? crime — a powerful, well-connected firm, with the ear of the president and the Treasury, that appears to have conquered the entire regulatory structure and stands now on the precipice of officially getting away with one of the biggest financial crimes in history.

The murder of a rapper amid the rise of Greece’s fascist party.

A single pill could take the sting out of our memories of trauma.

On the morality of procreation and the origins of birth control.

The author relives her Romanian youth and the imprisonment of her father through the Securitate files kept on her family.

The impact of the oil and gas booms taking place all over the world, and our future on fossil fuels.