An interview with Maurice Sendak.

“Anytime I was called a New Journalist I winced a little with embarrassment.”

When Jake Millison went missing, his family said he’d skipped town. But his friends refused to let him simply disappear.

An American mercenary, who did security for Trump rallies, attempts a amphibious coup along the Venezuelan border.

For 40 years, the city’s lifeguard corps has been mired in controversy, and for 40 years it’s been run by one man: Peter Stein.

Inside Randall Emmett’s direct-to-video empire, where many Hollywood stars have found lucrative early retirement.

A two-part story on Bill Gates and his revolutionary machine.

On the Toronto Islands, an ugly real estate battle forces neighbours to ask: How do we define family?

Foreign students are lied to and exploited on every front. They’re also propping up higher education as we know it

When a child vanished in Nova Scotia, online sleuths got involved in the search. Then they lost their way.

The comic answers some uncomfortable questions.

Over the last several years, millions of dollars worth of antique rhino horns have been stolen form collections around the world. The only thing more unusual than the crimes is the theory about who is responsible: A handful of families from rural Ireland known as the Rathkeale Rovers.

The expansion of private-security contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan is well known. But armed security personnel account for only about sixteen per cent of the over-all contracting force. The vast majority—more than sixty per cent of the total in Iraq—aren’t hired guns but hired hands. These workers, primarily from South Asia and Africa, often live in barbed-wire compounds on U.S. bases, eat at meagre chow halls, and host dance parties featuring Nepalese romance ballads and Ugandan church songs. A large number are employed by fly-by-night subcontractors who are financed by the American taxpayer but who often operate outside the law.

Do not assume, just because there is champagne and whiskey and maybe, sometimes, drugs, that these shuckers aren’t also thinking long and hard, and often poetically, about their métier.

The vans, operated by for-profit companies, carry tens of thousands of people every year. They lack beds, toilets, and medical services. More than a dozen women have alleged they were sexually assaulted by guards while being transported; since 2012, at least four people have died.

A look inside Google’s Ground Truth.

On the 1,600-year-old text that suggests that Jesus, long believed to be celibate, was a married man.

How a Tulsa preacher used direct mail to create the American religious right.

An interview on craft.

On “Operation Bambi,” the secret plan to oust “Today” show co-host Ann Curry.

Inside carpenter brothers Ryan and Dylan, and their stripper sister Lee-Grace Dougherty’s eight-day, fifteen-state, AK-47-wielding crime spree.

On L.A.’s Homeboy Industries, which offers former felons—including at least one disgraced CEO—the chance to work.

Margaret Profet, evolutionary biologist and MacArthur grant recipient, disappeared in 2005. She has neither been seen nor heard from since.

What would drive a man to stand outside the Vatican embassy nearly every day for 14 years?

Afghans have long visited falbin to have their futures foretold. Fundamentalist Muslim clerics hope to stop that.