After the election of Narendra Modi in 2014, Muslim journalists covering Hindu extremism noticed a change. The masks came off; the facade of courtesy, once flimsy, crumbled altogether.

“The mythical image of Malick that has been built up over the last 30-odd years is, in essence, a creation of the same media corps with whom the filmmaker himself has continually chosen not to engage.”

On the battle between Google, Apple, Uber, and Tesla to own the driverless car market, which could be worth more than $30 billion a year.

A review/interview/profile:

Let's settle on the bald facts: Eminem has secured his place in the rap pantheon.

Two white security contractors set off into the remote interior. Within a week, a seemingly innocent man who crossed their path lay dead on the side of the road. The manhunt began.

How making the most successful video game ever changed Alexey Pajitnov’s life.

In an Oklahoma City neighborhood usually left off city maps, the federal government is implementing its $300 million anti-poverty plan: teaching poor Americans how to get married.

For the Never Trumpers, “Trumpism is more than a freakish blight on the republic. It is a moral test.”

Inside the compulsive world of airline rewards hobbyists, who spend the bulk of their lives flying around the world for free.

On the increasingly dangerous situation for journalists in Syria.

How the state’s “restitution program” forces poor people to work off small debts.

A week on the campaign trail in the coffin-shaped Immortality Bus with Zoltan Istvan, the presidential candidate for the Transhumanist Party.

It didn't matter if these clubs were in Cleveland, Portland, Corpus Christi or Baton Rouge—if it was a nightclub, the owners were the Mob. For a good forty years the Mob controlled American show business.

The prison-industrial complex is not only a set of interest groups and institutions. It is also a state of mind. The lure of big money is corrupting the nation's criminal-justice system, replacing notions of public service with a drive for higher profits. The eagerness of elected officials to pass "tough-on-crime" legislation — combined with their unwillingness to disclose the true costs of these laws — has encouraged all sorts of financial improprieties. The inner workings of the prison-industrial complex can be observed in the state of New York, where the prison boom started, transforming the economy of an entire region; in Texas and Tennessee, where private prison companies have thrived; and in California, where the correctional trends of the past two decades have converged and reached extremes.

“I laugh off 90 percent of the stuff I’m sent,” Wu says. “But it’s the 10 percent.”

The island of Coiba off the coast of Panama is both a nature preserve and an open-air prison.

William Regnery II spent almost 20 years funding the racist right. It finally paid off.

Kross cuts through the moans and shouts from off-camera: “Someone go wide!” She’s telling the cameramen to make sure they are adequately capturing the reverse gang bang of Ferrara—the love of her life.

“Stanley McChrystal, Obama’s top commander in Afghanistan, has seized control of the war by never taking his eye off the real enemy: The wimps in the White House.”

An interview with the novelist, who died on Saturday.

A small New Jersey town is world-famous among Orthodox Jews as a place to come ask for handouts.

After oil was discovered on their Oklahoma reservation, the Osage Nation became the richest people per capita in the world. Then they began to be murdered off mysteriously. In 1924 the nascent FBI sent a team of undercover agents, including a Native American, to the Osage reservation.

William Nowell got a windfall and got off the streets. The only problem were his neighbors – and his odor.

Kevin Wheatcroft owns the world’s largest collection of Nazi memorabilia. And he’s suddenly eager to show it off.

On the 1998 crash of Swissair Fight 111 into the sea off a small Nova Scotia fishing village.