On reservations, where policing hardly exists, bruiser-for-hire vigilantes are often the first choice for justice.

Immigrant farmers are flocking to the poultry industry – only to become 21st-century sharecroppers for companies like Tyson.

A review/interview/profile:

Let's settle on the bald facts: Eminem has secured his place in the rap pantheon.

Nearly 10,000,000 men were killed in the conflict, 65 million participated, and now we are left with two.

Smigel: Louis comes up with, "What if he says, 'I'm the nurturing president,'and I've developed the ability to breastfeed!" And I'm like, "Yeah, that's great! And then let's have him open the shirt and he's got eight nipples and he can breastfeed dogs and cats." Colbert: We had already lost a lot of sponsors. [Starts singing] It's a beautiful root beer day, the folks from Mug Root Beer have agreed to stay. But you better not breastfeed any puppies today, or you sure as hell will be on your way. So be careful you little punk, Dana Carvey! Even I think it's odd I remember all of the lyrics. I am very impressive...remembering reasons why shows I'm on failed.

Meet Ben Discoe, a programmer who did it from October 2011 to November 2012.

Who gets out alive when disaster strikes? The people who can afford it.

She was an overnight YouTube success. Then she tried to make a TV show.

The poet died when he was hit by a car in 1965. Everything else about his demise is a mystery.

A former prostitute turned arctivist and her taxi-driver husband go undercover in Iraq’s brothels.

Susan Hawk was the first woman elected as Dallas County district attorney. She also suffers from depression.

Why The Undefeated, a site announced more than two years ago, still hasn’t launched.

An attempt to figure out how the Times columnist came to care more about personal morality than politics.

“It’s odd, the older I get, the more I remember.”

An interview with Jimmy Page on nostalgia, Robert Plant, and why he would only publish an autobiography after he dies.

The best-selling young novelist lay dead in a trash-strewn cottage on Ireland’s rugged coast for over a week before she was discovered.

Private planes, caviar lunches and Little League.

After an election deadlock that held the country hostage for months, two former rivals confront Afghanistan’s patronage and corruption.

A weekend with the only person on Earth who can survive five venomous snakebites in 48 hours.

Three siblings from Chicago ran away to become jihadis. Is it fair to try them as terrorists?

Ronnie O’Sullivan is the best snooker player in the world. He’s also the most tormented.

The man who killed John Wilkes Booth was a eunuch. By choice.

The Penn State sex abuse scandal as told through a father, a son and “Victim 1.”

Hipsters vs. Hasids in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. A skirmish over a bike lane becomes a battle for a neighborhood.

The bloody, often surreal, fight for Kosovo’s independence was led by a man moonlighting as a roofer in Switzerland.