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

“Yesterday I was just googling, I was going on YouTube to see how to microwave pasta.”

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.

The debate over censorship and Section 230 is thorny, contentious, and, above all, outdated.

13 women, a months-long trial, and a jury’s choice.

Cesar Sayoc turned his loyalty toward Donald Trump into a literal assault on the President’s Democratic enemies in 2018.

An essay on meaningless work.

In 2018, Floridians voted overwhelmingly to end greyhound racing, a sport they were told was archaic and inhumane. What if they were wrong?

Christina Kim risked everything to escape North Korea’s entrenched gender violence. She almost didn’t make it.

He’s an expert on Twitter virality, but not on infectious disease. Does he do more help or harm?

On the British and American fascination with rocking chairs and upholstery springs in the 19th century.

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

The first major interview with The Simpsons’ most prolific and legendary writer.

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?

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

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 historian Allen C. Guelzo believes that the Confederate general deserves a more compassionate reading.

The comic answers some uncomfortable questions.

A primer on how the smartphone generation is redefining communication.

A little after 9 a.m. on Sept. 15, 1990, the owner of a steel-products company pulled up to her office in Vinegar Hill, near the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and spotted a black garbage bag sitting on the sidewalk out front. She parked her car and went to move the bag when she noticed it leaking blood. The woman called 911. Within the hour, Ken Whelan, a homicide detective from the 84th Precinct, peered into the bag. It was full of human body parts.

On the evening of November 7th 1974, the 7th Earl of Lucan, an inveterate gambler and Backgammon champion with a taste for power boats, snuck into his estranged wife’s basement. He then bludgeoned their nanny with a lead pipe and placed her in a canvas sack, before attempting to murder his wife. Recognizing his voice, she convinced him that she could him escape, then slipped out a bathroom window. Lord Lucan was never seen again.

Mary Bacon took a bullet while pilfering fruit as a child. Mary Bacon dropped out of school in the sixth grade and was pregnant by age 16. Mary Bacon had a romantic relationship with Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke. Mary Bacon was kidnapped by a stalker. That same stalker later tried to shoot her with a gun. Not all of those sentences are complete horseshit.