In many countries, journalists are being targeted because of the role they play in ensuring a free and informed society.

While fleeing their Mali stronghold, al-Qaida left behind documents describing not how to terrorize a population, but how to govern.

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.)

The Facebook COO on her generation’s failures and the continuing gender gap in American business and politics.

Today, we turn to you. You are the promise for a more equal world. You are our hope. I truly believe that only when we get real equality in our governments, in our businesses, in our companies and our universities, will we start to solve this generation’s central moral problem, which is gender equality.

A palliative-care doctor and triple amputee has built a new kind of hospice in San Francisco.

A father and his 9-year-old daughter watch Harvard play Yale in football.

More than 500 Germans, including a former rapper named Deso Dogg, have joined ISIS in Syria.

It’s not just the virus that stands in the way, it’s bureaucratic logistics, and the frightening look of those hazmat suits.

The life and death of Marla Ruzicka, a 28-year-old aid worker in Baghdad.

Tony Kushner and the burdens of being one of the last public intellectuals in American theater.

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

What happened when Pete Buttigieg tore down houses in Black and Latino South Bend.

How homelessness is criminalized in small cities and towns across the West.

Not all that long ago, as the editor in chief of Gawker.com, Daulerio was among the most influential and feared figures in media. Now the forty-two-year-old is unemployed, his bank has frozen his life savings of $1,500, and a $1,200-per-month one-bedroom is all he can afford. He's renting here, he says, to be near the counselors and support network he has come to rely on lately.

“Project Veritas, founded in 2010, is a tax-exempt charity that says its mission is to “investigate and expose corruption, dishonesty, self-dealing, waste, fraud and other misconduct.” It raised $4.8 million and employed 38 people in 2016, according to its public tax filing. It also had 92 volunteers.”

They listened to the radio until there was nothing more to do. Philip went into the house and retrieved a container of Kraft vanilla pudding, which he’d mixed with all the drugs he could find in the house—Valium, Klonopin, Percocet, and so on. He opened the passenger-­side door and knelt beside Becky. He held a spoon, and she guided it to her mouth. When Becky had eaten all the pudding, he got back into the driver’s seat and swallowed a handful of pills. Philip asked her how the pudding tasted. “Like freedom,” she said. As they lost consciousness, the winter chill seeped into their clothes and skin.

Perhaps because your people have always hunted them. But also because there’s demand in New York fashion circles for their pelts.

Monika Glennon had one brief exchange with a complete stranger in a Facebook comment section. That stranger destroyed her life.

“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.”

Women who left their careers to be stay-at-home mothers reflect on the decision ten years later.

What did soccer have to do with two brutal murders after a pickup game?

An audacious plan to create a new energy source could save the planet from catastrophe. But time is running out.

On Mike Powell, a Chicago-area high school wrestling coach who hasn’t allowed a life-threatening illness to interrupt his life’s work.

What is the sickness that leads inhabitants to sleep for days?