A profile of Valeria Lukyanova, otherwise known as the “Human Barbie.”

A circle of young black playwrights is doing some of the most vital work in American theater. And Perry is at its center.

“Thug is alone even in a room full of people. He is unapproachable. He radiates volatility. I can't even imagine him making actual, on-purpose eye contact with another human. Looking into a person's eyes—seeking some kind of a connection—is an admission of neediness, and Young Thug would rather be shot dead in the street than need a thing from another human being.”

The disappearance of the Ghost Boat and its 243 passengers off the Libyan coast.

The singer is more uncompromising than ever.

In 1990, Judith Butler published a groundbreaking book on queer theory. Today, “in a broad-stroke, vastly simplified version, the understanding of gender that Gender Trouble suggests is not only recognizable; it is pop.”

Deputy Treasury Secretary Justin Muzinich has an increasingly prominent role. He still has ties to his family’s investment firm, which is a major beneficiary of the Treasury’s bailout actions.

One story of coming to America from the Soviet Union.

Pirates could be found in nearly every Atlantic port city. But only particular locations became known as “pirate nests,” a pejorative term used by royalists and customs officials. Many of the most notorious pirates began their careers in these ports. Others established even deeper ties by settling in these cities and becoming respected members of the local elite. Instead of the snarling drunken fiends that parade through children’s books, these pirates spent their booty on pigs and chickens, hoping to live a more placid and financially secure life on land.

Black people struggling with debts are far less likely than their white peers to gain lasting relief from bankruptcy. A style of bankruptcy practiced by lawyers in the South is primarily to blame.

The only question is which Republican will benefit from his largesse.

The CEO is 32. The CFO is 28. Their startup is the second-largest burger chain in the country.

What happened to Wesley Autrey after he jumped in front of a New York City subway train to save a man’s life.

In El Salvador, Jucuapa is home to dozens of small factories that churn out what some locals call the “wooden pajamas.”

The state attorney, who prosecuted Marissa Alexander and failed to convict George Zimmerman, has put hundreds of children behind bars.

The producer behind nearly everything Drake does and the multiple sclerosis that has claimed significant portions of his brain.

A wife’s notes on her husband’s last months.

On the promise of 23-year-old Nicholas Cleves, who died in the bike path attack in New York.

Going on a fishing trip with the secretary of the interior.

After Fukushima, balancing the risk of another disaster against the rising danger of climate change.

On what it’s like to go viral and the moral complications of laughing along.

For a period of time in 2013, the Times reported this year, a full half of YouTube traffic was “bots masquerading as people,” a portion so high that employees feared an inflection point after which YouTube’s systems for detecting fraudulent traffic would begin to regard bot traffic as real and human traffic as fake. They called this hypothetical event “the Inversion.”

“Since 1932, the Gulf of Mexico has swallowed 2,300 square miles of the state’s wetlands, an area larger than Delaware. If no action is taken, the missing Delaware will become a missing Connecticut, and then a missing Vermont.”

He wants you to know one thing: He’s not even angry.