Sady Doyle discusses the connection she draws between society’s monstrous treatment of women and woman’s archetypal monstrosity.

Siri Hustvedt’s “Memories of the Future” is a fitting book for the #MeToo moment, which is as much about justice and reparations as it is about understanding the logic of memory.

The Kingdom of Heaven, borne out of blood

If America collapses, some see that as an opportunity to reboot society. They say they have God on their side.

When LaVoy Finicum was shot by law enforcement, the anti-government movement called him a martyr. That message is spreading.

When a bomb exploded in a tiny desert town, there was no doubt who did it. But no one could understand why.

What a 19th-century scammer can teach us about women, lying, and economic boom-and-bust cycles

Dead bodies, shots fired at passing cars, rumors of a survivalist carrying a rifle — what is happening around Malibu Creek State Park, and did police capture the right suspect?

‘Everything that Manson did with his women was exactly what the CIA was trying to do with people without their knowledge, in the exact same time, at the exact same place.’

“Staying quiet seemed a reasonable choice.”

Filipinos are reckoning with their presidents’ violent approach to the drug trade.

One hundred summers ago, black Chicagoans were terrorized by whites during the Red Summer. Poet Eve Ewing talks about reaching out to her neighbors across time in “1919.”

A journalist who reported on the accusations long before they went viral wonders, “What kind of profession am I in, where stories have no logical reason for unfolding?”

For one woman, holding her employer accountable meant painting the story of her rape on a billboard above a busy LA freeway.

How Canada’s new, educated, organized far-right has been using a video game app to try to influence mainstream politics and create a white ethno-state.

Pupfish: 1, Drunk hooligan: 0

In “An American Summer,” journalist Alex Kotlowitz tries to report on gun deaths on Chicago’s South Side with the same attention to survivors, anniversaries, and aftershocks that is paid to mass shootings.

“Not a single person was killed on the day of the rioting. But the following month, May, would conclude with 41 homicides — the most the city had experienced in a month since the 1970s.”

“For now, though, he has no plans to become a baker again.”

True crime’s massive gender gap (95% of murderers are male) isn’t really one that needs fixing. And yet, since the beginning, a steadfast minority of Ripperologists have argued that Jack was really Jill.

A list of longreads to make sense of ‘Leaving Neverland.’

In these troubling economic times, you can’t amass a giant art collection without robbing a few hundred museums any more.

Journalist Evan Ratliff has uncovered the shocking reach of Paul Le Roux’s criminal enterprise — a global network of pawns, most of whom were unaware of the full extent of the empire.

Personal assistant? Start-up founder? Professional long-lost sister? No, Southern Baptist pastor.

It started in Eureka, then it spread. Up and down the Pacific Coast, white mobs turned on Chinese-Americans.

He robbed banks. A lot of banks. Non-violently, with a bike as his getaway vehicle. Why? Even he’s not sure.

There’s food there, and shelter and healthcare. Which is (sadly) more than you can say for a lot of places.

“I’ll put myself through the jokes and everything as long as I can shine a light on domestic violence and sexual assault and marital rape.”

By using avatars, Facebook, fake websites, and fake news, new private intelligence firms staffed by Israeli intelligence personnel are waging wars on perception to alter targeted groups’ beliefs and behavior. In their story for The New Yorker, Adam Entous and Ronan Farrow profile one firm called Psy-Group to delve deep into this disturbing frontier, which one Israeli intelligence […]

When caviar-crazed Eastern Europeans flocked to Warsaw, Missouri to poach eggs from a vulnerable species of fish, federal agents went undercover and spent two years to build case against them.