Why did Yousef Muslet face life in prison for an everyday gesture?

Why an expert in counterterrorism became a beat cop.

Can we treat psychosis by listening to the voices in our heads?

They got heart transplants on the same day. Then they fell in love.

A mysterious wild cat in Sri Lanka may hold a clue.

More than 50 foreclosure stories have one word in common: Nightmare.

The haunting of 657 Boulevard in Westfield, New Jersey.

Johnson & Johnson knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder.

Unregulated dams across Texas are increasingly failing—putting people and property in jeopardy.

The long fight against racism in romance novels.

In Kansas, girls didn’t have a wrestling championship. Mya Kretzer changed that.

Can his cerebral politics still galvanize voters in an age of extremes?

How acute childhood trauma infects and compromises relationships later in life.

What happens when humans, not algorithms, are in charge.

A hundred and fifty years ago, slightly more, a strange notion: the dead could be counted. In the Civil War, in the lush fields of the South, Americans first, as a culture, began to imagine death in numbers. Rosters of soldiers, as well as lists of war casualties, were not common practice in the mid-nineteenth century. Many officials feared responsibility for the dead by numbering or naming them, and military leaders felt an accurate count might embolden their enemies.

In 1992, thousands of furious, drunken cops descended on City Hall—and changed New York history.

In a sea of skeptics, this physician was one of fibromyalgia patients’ few true allies. Or was he?

In Oakland, California, when it comes to Black homelessness and dispossession, dystopia is already here.

A profile of Max Wade, a Marin County teenager on trial for stealing Guy Fieri’s Lamborghini and using it in the first drive-by in the history of Mill Valley, California.

“As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy can be stated in an axiom: the defense of privacy follows, and never precedes, the emergence of new technologies for the exposure of secrets. In other words, the case for privacy always comes too late.”

How Gaby Hoffman, who had roles in Field of Dreams, Uncle Buck and Sleepless in Seattle, survived child stardom.

Cycles of boom and bust in the drilling town of Williston, N.D., as seen from the perspective of an itinerant dancer filling one of three slots at the only strip club in town, Whispers.

“In less than a year Trump has succeeded in turning the USA into a massive high school.”

Notes from the GOP campaign trail.

At a playground in North Wales, kids are mostly left alone to experiment with fire, jump from great heights and play in a creek. It’s designed to teach the value of taking risks, a lesson many American children have stopped learning.

The underage prostitution study that was cited extensively in the congressional hearings that resulted in the removal of Craigslist’s Erotic Services turns out to be the work of a for-hire business consulting firm and, scientifically, completely bogus.