A teenaged prisoner is left unprotected by America’s laws against prison rape.

The Rattlesnake Derby is like a bass-fishing tournament, except you really don’t want a bite.

So you’re surrounded by idiots. Guess who the real jerk is.

For Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe, the work is just getting started.

Naomi Campbell, at 51, is discovering what comes after global icon.

Hurricane Maria was a natural catastrophe. The aftermath is a man-made disaster.

Like major contagions throughout history, the new coronavirus causes fear as well as illness. The remedy for both, it turns out, is the same.

The organization is listening to criticism — and changing.

Research into mind-altering drugs is back.

Why Donald Trump’s closest aide is leaving the White House.

Is this the world’s most bizarre scholarly meeting?

Within the world of law enforcement, bounty hunting is something of an aberration. An accident arising from the combination of common law, frontier justice, chattel slavery, and capitalism. No other job is more American. Bounty hunting’s legality is a mishmash of confusing requirements, regulations, and certifications that vary widely by state.

Andy Burcham is navigating his first season as the on-air replacement for his best friend, a beloved college football announcer named Rod Bramblett who was killed with his wife in a car crash. But a bigger change is at home, where the Burchams are raising the Brambletts’ son.

On revisionist architecture.

Looking at the statues here, or anywhere, makes one wonder: Is abstraction simply the cardinal feature of any war where the loss is so much greater than whatever can be described as victory?

Because women and girls don’t always kick ass, and neither should our heroines:

Bella Swan, by contrast, is a much more honest though cringe-inducing representation of adolescence. She doesn’t know who she is or what she wants. She’s clumsy, obtuse, and aggravating in her helplessness. She is also entirely internal, almost alienatingly so. One of my favorite passages from the novel New Moon is when Stephenie Meyer inserts a series of blank pages to stand in for the months that pass while Bella mourns — out of any reasonable proportion — Edward’s desertion. Bella, kind of wonderfully, takes her time.

“Colin Kaepernick is inconvenient. To persist is to show strength, but also to be unpredictable, hard to define, impossible to control. And to grow stronger with every lash is to become dangerous—a threat not only to power, but to inspire others to follow suit.”

“Indeed the essence of Camp is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration. And Camp is esoteric—something of a private code, a badge of identity even, among small urban cliques.”

The California Dream is made possible by old water and big water. Unfortunately, the former doesn’t care about us, and the latter’s running dry.

The Badger State is designed to keep Republicans in power, at the expense of the minority vote.

Kevin is the only surviving Von Erich brother, born into a wrestling family that lived and died by the code of the ring.

The Philippines is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a journalist, especially if you’re in talk radio.

The AIDS crisis as it unfolded in America is an object lesson in the danger, the potential violence, inherent in organized prejudice.

The 26-year-old is many things: New York Knicks center, devout Muslim, star of #NBATwitter, and enemy of the Turkish state.

Detroit is trying to end the longstanding practice of “scrapping,” which is the only way some of its residents can earn a living.

The champ is now a vegan, claims to be broke, and says he feels freer than ever before. “I have this uncanny ability to look at myself in the mirror and say, ‘This is a pig. You are a fucking piece of shit.’”