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As Gawker retires, one of its deputy editors explores her time there, and the complex feelings she has over earning a living in journalism, a job that comes with consequences and can, she says, “sometimes feel a whole lot like tattling.” It’s fascinating.

John Herrman meets the social media marketers whose political memes are taking over Facebook.

A beautiful essay by Leah Sottile on love and illness.

Since January, police have been testing an aerial surveillance system adapted from the surge in Iraq. And they neglected to tell the public.

The story of a Californian family torn apart by a child protective services agency, and the law firm helping them fight back.

Not every college student might be having casual sex, but the cultural forces that encourage casual encounters over other types, called hookup culture, is alive and well. Students at two schools kept journals about their sex lives to help one researcher understand how hookup culture, finances, looks, gender normativity, privilege and “sexually hot, emotionally cold” […]

Wrestling teammates Alex DeCubas and Kevin Pedersen grow up to oppose each other in the drug wars: one as a smuggler, the other as a DEA agent.

The bestselling author of The Eighty Dollar Champion describes the Nazis’ secret stud farm, where dubious visionaries imagined a breed of perfect (and perfectly white) horse.

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Chinese farmers in Southwest Portland sold their fruits and vegetables to white Portland residents, until real estate conditions shifted and drove them out. These are the same forces currently at work on Northeast Portland’s black community.

Gawker had a contentious existence. Let’s celebrate the variety of its material by rereading this hilarious story of one reporter’s self-destructive marathon of cheap mozzarella-stick-eating spent without reading material, wi-fi or sleep, just the satisfaction of winning a bet. It gets ugly fast.