Most of the fish we eat die by asphyxiation. But there’s a better way, both for the fish and those who eat them.

The refugee and author survived, stateless, for seven years. What’s next?

Caitlin Curran was fired from WNYC for attending an Occupy Wall Street protest. The author explains why her boss was wrong.

Greg Ousley killed his parents and has been locked up for nineteen years.

Is that enough?

How the daily e-mail from Mike Allen, Politico’s star reporter, has become a morning ritual for Washington’s elite.

In his work with the White House, is Mohammed bin Salman driving out extremism, or merely seizing power for himself?

For one writer, “Hot Vax Summer” is a slow climb.

Finding the author of Pictures for Sad Children.

Why Iran punished two leading AIDS doctors.

The “subtly radical” open-source plant movement.

The legacy of a phantom bluesman.

Nine months after the AOL merger, here’s a progress report.

On a movement divided.

How Juarez became the murder capital of the world.

After 25 years as a road comic, Leslie Jones becomes a star.

The subway built New York City. Now it might destroy it.

A profile.

Apocalypse camp at the dawn of the Great Extinction.

Finding meaning in the climate fight.

How the real estate boom left Black neighborhoods behind.

As the snow tires rumbled on the highway beneath us, a neo-Nazi "troll army" was several days into attacking the Jewish people of Whitefish on Spencer's behalf, based on a belief that some Whitefish Jews had recently tried to run Spencer and his mother out of town. Details about what actually happened between the town and the Spencers were in short supply, and, among the neo-Nazi troll brigades, anti-Semitism was in abundance.

Undercover as a student at Phoenix University, the largest for-profit higher education company in the country and the second-largest enroller of students (behind the SUNY system), where only 12 percent of first-time students graduate and the ad budget accounts for 30 percent of overall spending.

The chef/writer behind New York City’s Prune revises her original dreams for the restaurant in the wake of closing because of COVID.

For half a century, she has taken the things we know best— our bodies, our rituals, our nation — and shown us how strange they really are.

A primer on competitive eating’s premier event, the Hot Dog Eating Contest, which airs today at noon EST:

1: During the allotted period of time, contestants eat as many hot dogs and buns (called "HDBs") as they can. 2: They're allowed to use a beverage of their choice to wash things down. 3: They must stay in full view of their own, personal "Bunnette" scorekeeper. 4: Condiments may be used, but are not required. 5: HDBs that are still in the mouth at the end of the contest only count if they are eventually swallowed. 6: Puking up the hot dogs before the end of the contest (called "a reversal") will result in a disqualification, unless you do something horrific to make up for it (more on this later.)