Why libertarians adore Jane Jacobs.

A private contractor tossed U.S. military waste in Iraq and Afghanistan into giant pits and burned it. Now soldiers forced to breathe the toxic fumes are sick or dying—and the government is using faulty science to evade responsibility.

He appeared out of nowhere. He had no name, no memory, no past. He was the only person the FBI ever listed as missing even though they knew where he was. How could B.K. Doe remain anonymous in the modern age’s matrix of observation?

NASA wants to send humans to Mars by the 2030s. Neal Lane, Bill Clinton’s science adviser, says we should be looking at a closer goal.

Last year, the Kremlin called for an increase in patriotic youth—children who would grow up to be soldiers—by sending them to camp.

When the Justice Department goes easy on Wall Street, battered women pay the price.

Why are so many secular hospitals imposing religious restrictions on medical care?

The Arctic is warming twice as fast as any place on the planet. Can native villages in northernmost Alaska survive climate change?

Trevor Noah’s searing memoir ridicules the absurdities of racism.

"We don’t do IOUs," says Routt County, Colorado's Republican treasurer.

Can women in stoner comedies overthrow the social order?

Will the election spark a nonpartisan reckoning on sexual assault?

Social climbing and self-discovery are entwined in Zadie Smith’s new novel.

In her new book, the anonymous author assembles the fragments of her 24-year struggle to assert her own identity.

The robots of HBO’s new drama wake up to the trauma of humanity.

How an obscure libertarian idea became the go-to explanation for this year’s crazy politics.