Child custody, colonization, and the choices mother make

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.

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.

On February 10, 1982, Lucy Dixon’s daughter was raped. Against all odds, she and her family brought the man to justice.

At 67, the American Bandstand icon remains “one hard-working mother.”

What the Toronto Police found was even worse than they’d expected.

A visit to the ‘Castle’ where self-driving cars learn.

The first female Asian-American playwright on Broadway takes aim at identity and watches the audience squirm.

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen grew up to make New York’s most desirable clothes. But can even perfection survive the pandemic?

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.

From Southie to Santa Monica, a gangster romance on the run.

“Remember why we’re here: to empower the child. If you can’t handle it, keep your shades on.”

The railroad foreman’s brain was pierced by a tamping iron. He lived to tell the tale.

We know the country music pioneer died New Year’s Eve, 1953. But how?

A caller poses as a policeman and convinces McDonald’s managers to strip-search a female employee. It’s not the first time.

How the New York Times critic writes the reviews that make and break restaurants.

Julia, a 30-year-old, has spent her life trying not to take more than what she needs from the world. It’s made life very difficult.

The plan, basically: bring back the two founders (who were estranged), focus entirely on mobile, and apologize as much as possible.

“Seeing a partial eclipse bears the same relation to seeing a total eclipse as kissing a man does to marrying him.”

The director’s provocative new film will change the way you think about racism