An argument for ordering in, among other things.

“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.

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

Per Mertesacker walks away.

A trip to Sweeden’s Disgusting Food Museum.

Why did Casper sue a mattress blogger?

How meteorologists are improving their predictive powers.

How social media is fanning violence across the globe.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.”

The NBA’s most “irrationally confident” player tells his story.

A history of a small Texas town deep in the Chihuahuan desert:

The isolation is such that if you laid out the islands of the Hawaiian archipelago, and the deep ocean channels that separate them, on the road between Marfa and the East Texas of strip shopping and George Bush Jr., you’d still have 100 miles of blank highway stretching away in front of you.

Note From the Editors: As we were reporting this story, Newsweek Media Group fired Newsweek Editor Bob Roe, Executive Editor Ken Li and Senior Politics Reporter Celeste Katz for doing their jobs. Reporters Josh Keefe and Josh Saul were targeted for firing before an editor persuaded the company to reverse its decision. As we continued working on the story, we were asked to take part in a review process, which, we ultimately learned, involved egregious breaches of confidentiality and journalism ethics.

Saul is a Longform contributing editor.

On the parasitic relationship between oil and the stock market.