The dispute over what may be the biggest sunken treasure ever found – and who gets to keep it.

When it comes to sweatshops and child labor, your $7 H&M gym shorts aren’t really the problem (or the solution).

On a Victorian-era murder case, and the novel it inspired.

James Regan swindled his way through the city’s monied classes. The problem was, he seemed to believe his own lies.

He had the gear, the charm, the trail stories. He found his marks in outdoorsy women.

Smell is often dismissed as the least important sense. But it’s the funk that draws us together.

On personal responsibility and privilege.

On Hillary Clinton’s Arab Spring.

Mormonism’s past and present.

Drone strikes and their consequences.

A Bosnian social psychologist who studies guilt and responsibility in the collective memory (and denial) of Sreberbica, which is “among the most scientifically documented mass killings in history.”

On the London riot on 2011, which “tells us a great deal about our ideological-political predicament and about the kind of society we inhabit, a society which celebrates choice but in which the only available alternative to enforced democratic consensus is a blind acting out.”

A profile of the man who helped invent the modern art of presidential spin and came to embody the blurry line between journalist and government official.

The excerpts from a diary of an anonymous Russian special-forces officer who served twenty tours of duty in Chechnya during the Second Chechen War (1999-2009).

In 1974, John Patterson was abducted by the People’s Liberation Army of Mexico—a group no one had heard of before. The kidnappers wanted $500,000, and insisted that Patterson’s wife deliver the ransom.

Why 18th-century French police obsessively tracked elite sex workers.

Navigating the bureaucratic welfare maze while raising a family.

How a lawyer from the Valley created a gossip empire.

On the quarterback everyone loves to hate.

Fast-food workers, the minimum wage, and a future served by robot labor.

Moe Tucker narrates her time drumming in the Velvet Underground.

The Russian president has crushed all dissent, but he’s more vulnerable than ever.

On goalies, and in particular, really good Finnish ones.

Revisiting the street corner where Franz Ferdinand was shot.

A pre-recession essay on becoming extremely wealthy.