Nowadays, the young and privileged view un- and under-paid assistantships as the road to a successful creative career. Are they deluding themselves?

The families who are choosing to live in the exclusion zone’s ghost villages and nearby.

History’s largest mining operation is about to begin. It’s underwater—and the consequences are unimaginable.

The author, age 96, on the end.

The whole thing began over a puddle in the driveway. Eight years later, Peter Nygard and his neighbor Louis Bacon, who own houses next to each other in paradise, have spent tens of millions in a constantly escalating legal war. Neither man spends much time on the island anymore.

John Aldridge fell overboard in the middle of the night, 40 miles from shore, and the Coast Guard was looking in the wrong place. How did he survive?

Last year, a 26-year-old American missionary set out to convert the world’s most isolated hunter-gatherer tribe. This is the untold story of John Chau’s mission and the tragedy that awaited him.

Profiling the sleepy reality tv star.

On the lawyers who defend Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Jared Loughner and Whitey Bulger.

On Witanhurst, the dilapidated London mansion whose ownership is cloaked in mystery.

Explaining the explainer.

On the grief that comes with losing livestock.

'It’s raised the bar,' Craig finally conceded. 'It’s fucking raised the bar.'

Four American rock climbers are kidnapped by guerillas in Kyrgyzstan.

Drones, renditions, and underground prisons; inside the war on terror’s African front.

In the eighteen years since the infamous “Black Hawk Down” incident in Mogadishu, US policy on Somalia has been marked by neglect, miscalculation and failed attempts to use warlords to build indigenous counterterrorism capacity, many of which have backfired dramatically. At times, largely because of abuses committed by Somali militias the CIA has supported, US policy has strengthened the hand of the very groups it purports to oppose and inadvertently aided the rise of militant groups, including the Shabab.

After oil was discovered on their Oklahoma reservation, the Osage Nation became the richest people per capita in the world. Then they began to be murdered off mysteriously. In 1924 the nascent FBI sent a team of undercover agents, including a Native American, to the Osage reservation.

How can you know if you’re about to get replaced by an invading algorithm or an augmented immigrant? “If your job can be easily explained, it can be automated,” Anders Sandberg, of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute, tells Oppenheimer. “If it can’t, it won’t.” (Rotten luck for people whose job description is “Predict the future.”)

How one obscure sentence upset the New York Times.

Investigating the spike in Afghan-on-American military murders.

Why Obama won’t rein in the NSA.

Gentrification and its discontents in Paris, throughout the centuries.

On Colonel Muammar Qaddafi, “the permanent revolutionary,” and his son Seif.

On the relationship between rivalry and creativity.

Why don’t police catch serial rapists?