Al-Jazeera English dominated the international coverage of the 2008-2009 Gaza war. And now it’s poised to invade North America.

75 years after its founding, it’s still hard to explain exactly why Alcoholics Anonymous works.

A year after dozens died protesting his election and hundreds more were imprisoned, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad grants a rare interview to an American journalist.

In the early 1960s, Middle Eastern guys in Brooklyn introduced America to Arabic rock-and-roll.

How a childhood gorilla-hunting safari and a string of sexless marriages led Alice Sheldon to become reclusive sci-fi legend James Tiptree Jr.

A 2006 profile of Mark Zuckerberg as Facebook opened from a college-only site to a public social network.

For most people who participate in clinical trials, being a guinea pig is just a way to make a quick buck. For others, it’s a career.

The brain of Henry Molaison gave science most of what it knows about memory. Dr. Jacopo Annese believes there’s even more to learn.

How Cantor Fitzgerald is bringing the principles of day trading to sports betting in Vegas.

Inside Office 39, a state-run counterfeiting operation designed to keep Kim Jong-il flush.

How YouTube went from ubiquitous to profitable; and where it goes next.

On the enduring racial segregation in Chicago and why it’s an issue no mayoral candidate is willing to touch.

“If genius is hard to define, madness is even more so.” One chess champion’s take on the tortured life of another.

A team of researchers has a controversial plan to root fake data out of science.

From 2009 to 2014, police in Florida shot 827 people. Many of these incidents were avoidable and unnecessary.

A brutal custody battle raises questions about who has a right to rear a child and what the legal meaning of a family should be.

After their mother was deported to Mexico, the Marin siblings faced an impossible choice: Stay or go.

West Virginia has the highest overdose death rate in the country. Locals are fighting to save their neighbors—and their towns—from destruction.

He hacked a hospital to protest their treatment of a sick child. Now he’s facing 15 years.

A visit to the ‘Castle’ where self-driving cars learn.

There are just a handful of people using iron lungs in the U.S. And the machines they rely on to live are wearing out.

No one knows quite what to do with these coerced masks made from the faces of Native American POWS.

How the media company failed to create “a safe and inclusive workplace” for women.

It was burned and sunk to hide the crime. Now its probable remains have been located.

He was the consensus #1 pick in last year’s NBA draft. Then, seemingly overnight, he forgot how to shoot.