People with obsessive-compulsive disorder are often depicted as Type A clean freaks. The reality is much worse.

The absurd scale of McDonald’s’ economics suggests a company more like a commodity trader than a chain of restaurants.

At this volume, and with the impermanence of the sandwich, it only makes sense for McDonald’s to treat the sandwich as a sort of arbitrage strategy: at both ends of the product pipeline, you have a good being traded at such large volume that we might as well forget that one end of the pipeline is hogs and corn and the other end is a sandwich. McDonald’s likely doesn’t think in these terms, and neither should you.

Per Mertesacker walks away.

A trip to Sweeden’s Disgusting Food Museum.

Scenes from the Los Angeles tech boom.

In a dark echo of Rear Window, a wheelchair-bound hacker seizes control of hundreds of webcams, most of them aimed at young women’s beds.

Sooner or later a technology capable of wiping out human civilization might be invented. How far would we go to stop it?

How social media is fanning violence across the globe.

An argument for ordering in, among other things.

How meteorologists are improving their predictive powers.

“Wonder Boy” is heading to the NBA, and he’s out to change how we think about European imports.

Food. Phone calls. Medical care. Transport. Even in public prisons, “piecemeal privatization” is transforming incarceration in America.

Why did Casper sue a mattress blogger?

Open source materials suggest that, for now, the apocalyptic, anti-government politics of the “Boogaloo Bois” are not monolithically racist/neo-Nazi. As we have observed, some members rail against police shootings of African Americans, and praise black nationalist self defense groups.

But the materials also demonstrate that however irony-drenched it may appear to be, this is a movement actively preparing for armed confrontation with law enforcement, and anyone else who would restrict their expansive understanding of the right to bear arms. In a divided, destabilized post-coronavirus landscape, they could well contribute to widespread violence in the streets of American cities.

The veteran music publicist and radio host is also the indefatigable voice behind the most viral prompt questions on Twitter.

The activist who turned off the Keystone pipeline last fall is facing years in prison - and not backing down.

Many long-haulers feel that science is failing them. Neglecting them could make the pandemic even worse.

On A Star Is Born and the celebrity industrial complex.

How do you start closing the gap between rich and poor? Convince the rich to do it themselves.

On conspiracy theories in sports, from the ‘85 NBA draft lottery to Michael Phelps’ gold medal performance in the 100-meter butterfly.

For online advertisers, probably most of it. An investigation.

A fight that has nothing to do with gun control is ripping through the grieving community.

On Abbey Road studios, the Beatles, and modern record production.

Thirty-four years after the Bhopal gas leak, the abandoned waste pits are spreading poison and still destroying lives.

“You have to ask for food. You have to ask to go use the bathroom. … [Kelly] is a master at mind control. … He is a puppet master.”