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Before the Holocaust’s last architects can die naturally of old age, one Jewish man continues to track them down in order to bring them to justice for their crimes. Now his 40-year crusade has led him to Lithuania, a country which murdered over 90 percent of its Jewish citizens. Needless to say, he isn’t popular […]

Law enforcement across the U.S. use $2 kits to test for drug possession while out on the field, despite evidence showing that the tests routinely produce false positives. The effect on the lives of the falsely accused and convicted can be devastating.

How a historian of Iceland’s quirky politics became the country’s new president.

By studying how moral behavior works in the real world, scientists are tackling an ancient subject that was previously the domain of religion and philosophy: whether human beings are inherently cooperative or competitive. In other words: how selfish are we? The news is good.

A look into childhood disintegrative disorder, a rare condition which causes a child to “suffer deep, sharp reversals along multiple lines of development.”

And a racist joke, at that. But working women and black civil rights lawyers had the last laugh when they brought women’s workplace rights to the courts and won.

Grief, loss, and marginalia: “I hoard evidence of her handwriting, on birthday cards or grocery lists or receipts. I cannot throw a single instance of it away.”

Brodesser-Akner profiles Marie Kondo, the best-selling Japanese author has started a formal training program for her organizing methods. Kondo has devoted followers, but also many detractors from the National Association of Professional Organizers, who find her methods too draconian.

George Saunders goes on the road to attend Trump rallies to get a sense of why so many people support the controversial candidate, and an understanding of how America has become so divided.

Revisiting the women of John Hughes’ ’80s teen films, whose complex characters were unable to avoid the trap of aspiring to domestic ideals of how women should be.