In 1971, an unlikely activist sued to overturn Iowa’s ban on married women and mothers playing school sports. She just wanted to play.

Police departments have become more attentive to officers’ use of excessive force on the job, but that concern rarely extends to the home.

How Aja Newman’s trip to the emergency room uncovered the abusive behavior of “rock star” physician David Newman, who ultimately pleaded guilty to four counts of sexual abuse against his patients.

People said that women had no place in the Grand Canyon and would likely die trying to run the Colorado River. In 1938, two female scientists set out to prove them wrong.

When her former student was found wandering the streets a decade after she’d last seen him, Michelle Girard immediately agreed to take him in. Then she decided to do far more, including give him the Christmas he’d never had.

Banned in Russia and cut by Condé Nast from the GQ website, this story (presented in full) details the intrigue behind the Moscow apartment bombings, blamed on Chechens, that allowed Putin to rapidly ascend to power.

Data is the lifeblood of a functioning government. Over the past four years, the Trump administration has destroyed, disappeared, or distorted vast swaths of the information the state needs to protect the vulnerable, safeguard our health, and alert us to emerging crises.

An interview with rapper Drakeo the Ruler after he was released from prison, having previously faced the possibility of 25 to life despite being previously acquitted of murder charges related to a 2016 killing.

The Air Force, beholden to corporate forces, is trapped in a contract with Northrop Grumman to rebuild the nuke program.

As more homicide cases go unsolved, the backlog of unsolved murders grows and serial killers are free to kill again. Too few police departments are effectively deploying their resources to stop them.

In 2003, the destruction of one particular statue in Baghdad made worldwide headlines and came to be a symbol of western victory in Iraq. But there was so much more to it—or rather, so much less.

A son tries to make sense of his mother’s end.

The history of blue jeans, “America’s greatest contribution to the global closet.”

A participant in a deadly shooting spree decides to snitch on his friends.

A mother struggles to cope when a child is born with albinism.

How self-harm came to take more lives than war, murder and natural disasters combined.

Following a lobster from sea to table.

One rabbi’s tactics against husbands who refuse to divorce their wives.

On the universal drive to grow and reproduce.

A trip to the U.S. Open of ping-pong.

Fame, fashion, and a trip to the zoo.

An essay about phone dials and a response to the end of blogging.

On Teller, his magic, and his response to a stolen trick.

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

A trip to Hempfest with cannabis breeder DJ Short.