“I’ve got these boxes of ideas and I’m starting to go through them to see if there’s any gold. “

Like hundreds of other local slaves — [they] had been pressed into service by the Confederates, compelled to build an artillery emplacement amid the dunes across the harbor. They labored beneath the banner of the 115th Virginia Militia, a blue flag bearing a motto in golden letters: “Give me liberty or give me death.”

A frustrated Black Lives Matter activist. A die-hard Confederate loyalist. A sheriff who won’t back down. In a place where protests are restricted and violence feels imminent, many cry: “We don’t want to die no more.”

An excerpt from Darnielle’s debut novel, in which a disfigured man talks to maladjusted teens.

How Chicago is key to a business moving tons of drugs for billions of dollars.

It mostly had to do with Patch, the executive’s hyperlocal and unprofitable baby.

Trying to understand the appeal of Eve Online.

The road to Lhakpa Sherpa’s seventh potential summit​ has been nothing if not complicated.

The state attorney, who prosecuted Marissa Alexander and failed to convict George Zimmerman, has put hundreds of children behind bars.

On Ilya Zhitomirskiy, an idealistic young developer who committed suicide 18 months after founding Diaspora, his well-publicized, open-source alternative to Facebook.

As “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” comes to an end, a conversation with gay servicemen past and present.

Al-Jazeera English dominated the international coverage of the 2008-2009 Gaza war. And now it’s poised to invade North America.

How a childhood gorilla-hunting safari and a string of sexless marriages led Alice Sheldon to become reclusive sci-fi legend James Tiptree Jr.

No one knows quite what to do with these coerced masks made from the faces of Native American POWS.

From kitchen camp to political plates, queer people have been shaping food culture for decades.

How a night of drunken mischief led to the death of a rare endangered fish and a rare prosecution.

A young dealer goes on the lam after selling multiple masterpieces to several buyers simultaneously.

The author and his daughter make a pilgrimage to witness greatness.

Biden has a plan to make day care more affordable for parents—if the providers don’t go out of business first.

Life as a Syrian refugee in Germany.

Kobe Bryant in twilight.

When her brother embraced Orthodox Judaism, the author began to question her own reality and went to Israel to find some answers.

How governments and private companies have engaged in digital arms trading by building a global black market for ‘zero day’ hacks.

A town ruined by the chemical C8, an ingredient in the making of Teflon.