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

“What it means — for the reporting we do, for the brands we represent, and for our own mental health — that we don’t stop being black people when we’re working as black reporters. That we quite literally have skin in the game.”

Twelve columns about the boxer’s descent, originally published in the Chicago Daily News and the Chicago Sun-Times.

The question for researchers isn’t “How smart are dolphins?” It’s “How are dolphins smart?”

For Gangaram Mahes, Rikers Island was the only chance for three squares and a “decent life.” So Mahes committed the same crime 31 straight times: refusing to pay the check at New York City restaurants.

She was last seen leaving a pickup bar, her body was found the next morning in the dirt beside a football field. He was ten. Thirty-six years later, the author investigates his mother’s murder.

All aboard the maiden voyage Rob Gronkowski’s party cruise.

In eight minutes, Miashah Moses took out the trash and a blaze consumed the apartment where her nieces were watching television. What happened, and who’s to blame?

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.

Meet Mark Millar, the brains behind our era’s most violent, ingenious comics.

The original article that inspired the movie Spotlight.

North Carolina’s protest movement has galvanized the state’s progressives, but couldn’t stop 2014’s Republican tide. Its leaders say they’re just getting started.