The Onion’s Keith Phipps retraces the route Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda followed in Easy Rider.

As of this year, more women than men are in the U.S. workforce. More women are managers and more women are earning college degrees. Here’s why.

Nitrous balloon vendors clash in the parking lots of jam band festival across the Northeast.

How Christopher Hitchens, a former socialist, became one of the most vigorous defenders of the war in Iraq.

Three Dallas prostitutes were found dead in as many months. Charles Albright might be the last person you’d suspect–unless you knew about his lifelong obsession.

The Great Recession’s impact on the legalized prostitution industry in Nevada: more hookers, fewer johns.

During his career, Josh Luchs gave college athletes thousands in cash, meals, and trips. Now he’s retiring and coming clean.

Scenario-based forecasts on the future of America, in the style of the C.I.A’s National Intelligence Estimate.

A (graphically) detailed account of a bear’s attack on a father and daughter hiking in Glacier National Park.

In 1926, at the age of 12, Barbara Follett published a critically acclaimed novel. Fourteen years later, she disappeared.

Around 60 people in the world share a condition called “highly superior autobiographical memory.” They remember absolutely everything.

How an unassuming bureaucrat outsmarted Jamie Oliver and pulled off a cafeteria miracle in one of America’s unhealthiest cities.

On what lay behind Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and what lies ahead.

On water in the West, climate change, and how the birth of modern environmentalism lies at the bottom of Lake Powell.

How Vivitrol, a little-known anti-addiction drug, became the mandatory treatment for opioid abuse in drug courts across the United States.

Young-adult books are being targeted in intense social-media callouts, draggings, and pile-ons — sometimes before anybody’s even read them.

Life as a New York Times reporter in the shadow of the war on terror.

Protests, populism, and progressivism all clashed in a battle royal. But what really drives election results?

A Native American family’s fight for housing security in the city and on the reservation.

“You’ve got your whole life in front of you. You’re pretty, you’ve got this house — well, you don’t have this house anymore. This house is my house.”

After the explosion of the Columbia shuttle in 2003, two American astronauts aboard the International Space Station suddenly found themselves with no ride home.

A profile of California’s governor at the end of more than 40 years in public life.

An interview with Cobain a few months after the release of In Utero.

How the 9.9 percent became “the principal accomplices in a process that is slowly strangling the economy, destabilizing American politics, and eroding democracy.”