Inside the ultra-Orthodox Jewish rally at Citi Field to discuss the dangers of the internet:

A man in a black fur hat asked him what, exactly, was an app, and he explained it to him. The man grimaced and walked away.

An art museum in Tasmania is saving the local economy. It also offers an “eternity membership” which, for $75,000, will see your ashes displayed there once you’ve gone.

Gamers, celebrities, military veterans, and publicists populate a capitalist future.

“I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it.”

An attempt to figure out why, and how, a young pilot named Andreas Günter Lubitz deliberately plunged an airliner into the remote French Alps, killing himself and the other 149 people on board.

Their boss allegedly committed sexual assault and abuse. He denied everything. They had to decide: Who do I believe? What do I do?

What Rüdiger Heim learned about his father.

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The rise of Modi and the Hindu far right.

A cook fights for his sight while reopening his famous restaurant.

“Sometimes I wake up and think this isn’t happening.”

The author ponders the dissolution of his own marriage, and others.

The story of the Huffington Post.

The future of India’s “good minority,” the Parsis.

The stories of four women whose children joined the Islamic State.

A narrative of the Michael Brown shooting.

A dispatch from the frozen, drunken wasteland of Eastern Siberia.

The original story of Christopher McCandless’ fateful trip into the Alaskan wilderness.

I first learned about cloud lovers in a police report concerning a man who received a blowjob from a young woman and went mad. The man — let's call him Carl (police reports have the names of suspects and victims redacted) — was in his 40s, and the woman, let's call her Lisa, was almost 18. The two first met in the fall of 2003 at a local TV station that was holding a contest to find the best video footage of Northwest clouds. According to the report, which was lost when I cleaned my messy desk in 2005 (I'm recalling all of this from an imperfect memory), Carl, who was married and well-to-do, fell in love with Lisa, whose family was not so well-off, upon seeing her for the first time. He had a videocassette in his hand; she had a videocassette in her hand. He showed his tape to the station's weatherman (sun, sky, clouds). She showed hers (clouds, sky, sun). During the contest, his eyes could not escape her beauty. After the contest, the impression she made on his mind intensified. That bewitching coin in the short story by Jorge Luis Borges, "The Zahir," comes to mind. If a person sees this coin only once, the memory of its image begins to more and more dominate his/her thoughts and dreams. Soon the coin becomes the mind's sole reality. Lisa's face was Carl's Zahir.

How MSG became “perhaps the most infamously misunderstood and maligned three letters in the history of food.”

A portrait of a comedian in the moment just before he becomes huge.

Football-related brain damage made Rickie Harris fall from the heights of the NFL to serving a DUI sentence in his ex-wife’s basement.

Inside the investigation that broke the biggest case of insider trading in history.

Nitrous balloon vendors clash in the parking lots of jam band festival across the Northeast.

Thirty years ago, a series of documentaries introduced the world to an isolated tribe in Papua New Guinea. What happened when the cameras left?