How Sinclair Broadcast Group bent the rules, bought politicians, and faked the news to become one of the largest independent owners of television stations in America.

The 34-year-old virgin father-of-15 at the forefront of the controversial DIY sperm donation movement.

“I was never falling-down drunk. I was never belligerent. I always got my work done. I was never unkempt. I was always clean, I was always shaved, I always performed at work. I was always kind and gracious in the dining room. But I lived in hell.”

A young, shackled black man is shot to death — and the police say he killed himself. The resulting investigation has pitted the victim’s father against the most powerful man in New Iberia, La.

Speaking to a group that started their college lives in September, 2001, the host of The Daily Show embraces how difficult the real world is:

I want to address is the idea that somehow this new generation is not as prepared for the sacrifice and the tenacity that will be needed in the difficult times ahead. I have not found this generation to be cynical or apathetic or selfish. They are as strong and as decent as any people that I have met. And I will say this, on my way down here I stopped at Bethesda Naval, and when you talk to the young kids that are there that have just been back from Iraq and Afghanistan, you don’t have the worry about the future that you hear from so many that are not a part of this generation but judging it from above.

An oral history of the Tinderverse.

On the crash of Air France Flight 447.

The story of rivers and relationships.

A profile of the prime minister.

The invention of political consulting.

The rise of Israel’s far right.

The unexpected history of a name.

The genetics of schizophrenia.

On the neurobiology of flora.

On the fleeting magic of volleyball.

The diaspora of Hurricane Katrina.

A profile of the professional wrestler.

The rise and (potential) fall of the electronics superstore.

How the United States came to spend more on defense than all the other nations of the world combined.

The “insane playfulness, deliberate infantilism, nutty haikus, naked stripteases, free-form chants and literary war dances of the beats” and their leader.

The story of the Caughnawagas, “the most footloose Indians in North America,” and their gradual assimilation.

The original article on Billy Beane and the Oakland A’s, published a month before the release of Moneyball.

The controversial owner of the Dallas World Aquarium once nearly caused a riot over pygmy sloths.

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