There are more than 22,000 homeless children in New York, the highest number since the Great Depression. This is one of their stories.

John Walker Lindh’s father on why his son is an innocent victim of the War on Terror.

Why a Nova Scotia community is still searching for the killer of a beloved farmer thirty years later.

Each time the work of the British-Mexican artist and writer is reborn, it seems more prescient.

The country’s hacking software is recognized the world over. Not everyone thinks it’s a good thing.

This is the story of the night Hannah was not officially raped in Washington, D.C.

On the economics of the booming Somali pirate business, which is up 177 percent over last year.

Citizens of Shishmaref, Alaska are watching their beaches disappear and their homes fall into the sea. Is it too late to relocate?

“Quebec is the Saudi Arabia of maple syrup,” and it has the authoritarian regulatory regime to prove it.

A profile Hunter Moore,  the founder of the controversial revenge-porn site Is Anyone Up.

The most successful songwriter of the last twenty years is a forty-four year old Swede, Max Martin.

Jason Dill is rebuilding one of the coolest skate brands on the planet, one hand-cut collage at a time.

The world is consumed by violent fights and hostile disagreements. Sarah Schulman sees a way out of them.

For the past two decades, the micronation of Westarctica has grown in prominence—and is now using its power for something other than Antarctic domination.

“Which is the largest country in the world, economically speaking? It’s America, the United States. Do you know why? Because way back—this is history, you can look it up on the Internet—the colonization was done by men who believed in the word of God. And they were tithers. That’s why you see on the dollar bill: ‘In God we trust.”

Rosario Crocetta is a reform-minded leader in a highly corrupt place that hates change. That’s only one of the reasons his life is in danger.

Next is "culture training," in which trainees memorize colloquialisms and state capitals, study clips of Seinfeld and photos of Walmarts, and eat in cafeterias serving paneer burgers and pizza topped with lamb pepperoni. Trainers aim to impart something they call "international culture"—which is, of course, no culture at all, but a garbled hybrid of Indian and Western signifiers designed to be recognizable to everyone and familiar to no one. The result is a comically botched translation—a multibillion dollar game of telephone. "The most marketable skill in India today," the Guardian wrote in 2003, "is the ability to abandon your identity and slip into someone else's."

A youth set to the shifting sounds of CCM, Christian Contemporary Music:

This, by the way, is considered the ultimate sign of quality CCM, even amongst Christians: the ability to pass as secular. Every band’s goal was to have teenagers stop their grooving mid-song and exclaim, like a soda commercial actress who’s just realized she’s been drinking Diet, “Wait, this is Christian?”

An estimated 70,000 transgender youth lack secure housing. This is what life on the streets is like for six of them.

Amazon, America’s most valuable retailer, is “conducting a little-known experiment in how far it can push white-collar workers, redrawing the boundaries of what is acceptable.”

Madrid, 1937:

Then for a moment it stops. An old woman, with a shawl over her shoulders, holding a terrified thin little boy by the hand, runs out into the square. You know what she is thinking: she is thinking she must get the child home, you are always safer in your own place, with the things you know. Somehow you do not believe you can get killed when you are sitting in your own parlor, you never think that. She is in the middle of the square when the next one comes.

It’s legal to buy poppy seeds in America and it’s legal to plant them—unless you’re familiar with the simple process of turning them into opium, that is. Then having poppies in your garden is a felony.

“A curious thing about the United States is that anticommunism has always been far louder and more potent than communism.”

Most of what you know about women’s fertility rates is wrong.