Solving the mystery of the corpse in the Eleganté Hotel.

The mysteries of the least known Brontë sister.

How the Keystone XL became the defining environmental test of Obama’s presidency.

The three men vying to be the next publisher of the New York Times.

How a father and son solved the mystery of the dinosaurs’ demise.

A profile of the favorite to become the next UK prime minister.

On the arrival of Formula 1 in India.

The best women’s soccer team in the world fights for equal pay.

How two interior decorators took the fall for the Cali Cartel.

The jewels of America’s landscape should belong to America’s original peoples.

Can the International Swimming League take on the IOC and Vladimir Putin?

A Stockholm prostitute is found hacked apart in a dumpster, her head is never found. Two accomplished doctors, confirmed creeps, are arrested. Uncertainty endures.

On the art of the takedown.

The architect of the Occupy movement on the state of “anti-globalization” activism at the turn of the twentieth century.

Over the past decade, activists in North America have been putting enormous creative energy into reinventing their groups’ own internal processes, to create viable models of what functioning direct democracy could actually look like. In this we’ve drawn particularly, as I’ve noted, on examples from outside the Western tradition, which almost invariably rely on some process of consensus finding, rather than majority vote. The result is a rich and growing panoply of organizational instruments—spokescouncils, affinity groups, facilitation tools, break-outs, fishbowls, blocking concerns, vibe-watchers and so on—all aimed at creating forms of democratic process that allow initiatives to rise from below and attain maximum effective solidarity, without stifling dissenting voices, creating leadership positions or compelling anyone to do anything which they have not freely agreed to do.

One frosty October morning in 1991, a newborn baby boy is found inside a plastic bag in an Oslo graveyard. This is his story, in nine parts.

The reverberations of an avalanche.

An essay from inside Sing Sing.

The case for paying college athletes.

The strange existence of the accused Internet pirate as he battles the U.S. government.

On America’s relationship with the right to bear arms, from the Founding Fathers to the Black Panthers and the Ku Klux Klan.

The Aziz Ansari controversy was just the beginning of the trouble for the website.

On vandwelling in the wake of the Great Recession.

A crusading minister has built a forested Utopia for the itinerant and destitute. But is a social experiment what they’re looking for, or just a place to live?

In 1992, a Chinese freighter tipped violently in a storm dumping a load of plastic floatee toys—7,200 red beavers, 7,200 green frogs, 7,200 blue turtles, and 7,200 yellow ducks—to the open sea. This is their story.