A requiem for the ‘content portal’ era.

At home with the liberated former House speaker.

An interview with the activist.

The transgender community fights for health care.

A year with the scandal-plagued squad.

Why do we hate decaf so much?

What happens when illness becomes an identity?

How Kaws short-circuited the art world.

How the presidential candidate teaches.

An argument for trying.

The families Dodger Stadium removed.

On Beirut’s broken sewage system.

One man’s obsession with his miniature Christmas village.

Child custody, colonization, and the choices mother make

In February, Jerusalem’s FC Beitar, the only soccer team in the Israeli Premier League to have never signed an Arab player, signed two Chechnyan Muslims, sparking national controversy and pitting the organization against their ultras fan club La Familia.

“Joe’s hand began to tingle, and he called the group together. The toxins would leave his system in 48 hours, he said. He’d be conscious the whole time.”

How the woman who brought Westboro Baptist to Twitter came to question the church’s beliefs.

Twelve-step programs treat alcohol and drugs according to the same principles. But heroin changes the way the brain works. If there’s a medication that treats heroin addiction, why aren’t we using it?

Humanity has 30 years to find out.

On claiming the conquistador Juan Ponce de León as an ancestor and the fictions we tell ourselves.

The agriculture industry has known for 40 years that using antibiotics can create superbugs. Only one company has taken the science seriously.

In New York City, every 4-year-old has access to free early education—even those whose families make up the 1 percent.

On the American teenager who was kidnapped by Islamic militants while on vacation in the Philippines.

Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe build the most powerful Tea Party organization in the country. Then a feud threatened to undo everything.

The last great brawling sports team in America—Reggie, Catfish, Goose, Gator, and the Boss—remember their fallen leader.