Space is only getting weirder.

Incremental changes in abortion laws lead to a system where women “turn themselves into pretzels” just to find a doctor.

Following two leading figures of the #BlackLivesMatter movement through five months of protests.

Why our entire understanding of copyright is due for an overhaul.

According to a whistleblower, the SEC has been systematically destroying records of investigations for the last twenty years:

By whitewashing the files of some of the nation's worst financial criminals, the SEC has kept an entire generation of federal investigators in the dark about past inquiries into insider trading, fraud and market manipulation against companies like Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and AIG. With a few strokes of the keyboard, the evidence gathered during thousands of investigations – "18,000 ... including Madoff," as one high-ranking SEC official put it during a panicked meeting about the destruction – has apparently disappeared forever into the wormhole of history.

A profile of Gil-Scott Heron.

Trying to make sense of a fragmented, disparate musical tradition.

The debate over who’s responsible when a child kills.

On wearing a concealed handgun and how it changed the author’s worldview.

A trip to a grave in Damascus as shelling started in Homs.

On digital animators’ quest to capture the endlessly complex human face.

He doesn’t really know. Never really has, actually, and that’s the way he likes it.

An interview with the elusive Frank Ocean.

A search for common ground.

On mental health and professional sports.

On a newfound appreciation for the stroll.

What increased tourism means for the people of the Northwest Passage.

Baba Ramdev renounced the material world twenty-three years ago to become a Hindu ascetic. Now he’s on TV selling toothpaste, instant noodles, and toilet cleaners and the company he is believed to control is poised to become the biggest consumer goods seller in India.

A profile of the late Jack LaLanne, “the greatest gym teacher of all time,” who was as responsible as anyone for America’s fitness craze in the latter half of the 20th century.

“Good espresso depends on the fourM’s: Macchina, the espresso machine; Macinazione, the proper grinding of a beans; Miscela, the coffee blend and the roast, and Mano is the skilled hand of the barista, because even with the finest beans and the most advanced equipment, the shot depends on the touch and style of the barista.”

The underage prostitution study that was cited extensively in the congressional hearings that resulted in the removal of Craigslist’s Erotic Services turns out to be the work of a for-hire business consulting firm and, scientifically, completely bogus.

Why everything is getting louder.

The fall of Richard Roberts, anointed son and successor of televangelist Oral Roberts, who was fired as president of Oral Roberts University and evicted from the home he’d lived in for nearly 50 years.

For years sheriffs, mental health advocates, families and prosecutors have sounded the alarm about the number of people with mental illness arrested and locked up, many for minor crimes.

“The palace doors flew open. It was him. It was Rick Owens, the American-born designer known to his fans as the Lord of Darkness.”