Buca was a big-ticket darling of the Toronto restaurant scene. How did it wind up $35 million in debt?

Courtroom testimony about dogs detecting dead bodies keeps sending people to prison—even without physical evidence. Critics say the science is lacking.

The comic answers some uncomfortable questions.

A primer on how the smartphone generation is redefining communication.

Their community forged by industry, residents of Badin, North Carolina confront the long shadow of racism and pollution.

Growing up with Charlie Brown.

What it’s like to be struck by lightning.

A profile of Laura Poitras.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg, profiled.

A profile of Dr. Oz.

A profile of 101-year-old marathoner Fauja Singh.

How a top law firm destroyed itself.

John C. Favalora is a sallow old man who looks like the corpse of Dom Deluise. He likes attractive young men to sit on his lap and allegedly treats them to trips in the Florida Keys. He was, until recently, part owner of a company that makes "all natural" boner-inducing beverages. He's also the Archbishop Emeritus of Miami.

One reason the Tea Party's patriotic political statements are so taupe is that they mirror the religious rhetoric, which is high on generalizations about God and low on nuance and complexity and conflict. Go ahead, replace "constitution" and "patriotism" with "God" and "faith" in some tea party speech sometime—it's not as wacky as it should be.

Confronting homophobia in Uganda.

Going “Full Mickey” at Disneyland.

America’s devastating treatment of schizophrenia.

Letters from a jailed French jihadi.

Over four months, a methane well in southern California’s Aliso Canyon leaked Lebanon’s equivalent of yearly emissions into the atmosphere. No one knows what the long-term effects will be.

Life on an isolated island utopia.

Can local news survive?