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For a year or two, I smoked pot out of a chimney-¡shaped wooden pipe. It came with a lighter, which was wrapped in a sort of braided-¡leather papoose. Papoose and [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDThe Miller quick coupler comes in a few different sizes. The one I tried out has the proportions of a laundry bin and weighs nearly 700 pounds. It allows [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDWhen a law has a name like ''Patriot'' or ''Freedom,'' it's a sign that you should read the fine print. Somewhere down there, in the terraced subclauses of some [...]

Byline: BY MATTATHIAS SCHWARTZ THE WHOLE HAYSTACK The N.S.A. claims it needs access to all our phone records. But is that the best way to catch a terrorist? Almost every [...]

In the evening, after homework was done, Andrew Madoff would sit at the kitchen table with his father, Bernie. Together they read the newspaper's business pages. Bernie explained the columns [...]

The article discusses on January the night Congress met to certify Joe Eiden's victory in the presidential election, Michael Flynn - the retired three-star general, ousted national security adviser and pardoned felon gave an interview to the prominent conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

THE ANCHOR The Africans who risk all to reach Europe look to an exiled priest as their savior. In Eritrea, you turn eighteen and go into the Army, and you [...]

A MISSION GONE WRONG Why are we still fighting the drug war? One night in May of 2012, a Honduran police inspector received a phone call from an agent of [...]

The article informs that U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo voiced confidence in the commitment of the administration of President Donald Trump to the constitutional setting of the U.S. election. It reports that president Trump was refusing to concede the race and spinning out baseless conspiracy theories about the result.

The article focuses on the Trump's statements that the virus was under control and basic precautions were therefore unnecessary, and his voice took on a pleading tone as he implored the president to consider the risks that the virus posed not to the country as a whole. It mentions that Trump tried to shift away from counting deaths to counting cases, and pulled some charts from a side and began rustling them in his lap.

The article focuses on power of Attorney General William Barr in the U.S. Topics discussed include presidency of the U.S. President Donald Trump amid COVID-19 pandemic, which was challenged by several White House staff tested positive from coronavirus; information on Trump's fight to open the nation's economy; and information on Barr's willingness to weather controversy on the president's behalf.

Three years before the storm, Liz Margolies, a psychotherapist from Manhattan, took a ferry ride to Highlands, N.J., an old fishing village tucked into the corner of Sandy Hook Bay. [...]

Most cemeteries replace the illusion of life's permanence with another illusion: the permanence of a name carved in stone. Not so May Pen Cemetery, in Kingston, Jamaica, where bodies are [...]

Kalle Lasn spends most nights shuffling clippings into a binder of plastic sleeves, each of which represents one page of an issue of Adbusters, a bimonthly magazine that he founded [...]

Last week, New York's Mattathias Schwartz invited Occupy Wall Street protester Manissa Maharawal, a CUNY graduate student in anthropology, to discuss the movement and its impact over coffee with former [...]

One June morning last year, Jack Dailey drove from his home in North Carolina's Piedmont country, through verdant, hilly farmland to a rifle range near the town of Ramseur. Eleven [...]

One afternoon in the spring of 2006, for reasons unknown to those who knew him, Mitchell Henderson, a seventh grader from Rochester, Minn., took a .22-caliber rifle down from a [...]

Greg Hogan Jr. was on tilt. For months now, Hogan, a 19-year-old Lehigh University sophomore, had been on tilt, and he would remain on tilt for weeks to come. Alone [...]

The article reports that the Central Processing Center in Rio Grand Valley in Colorado, Mexico and Texas is a monument to "deterrence," the idea that undocumented immigrants will stop showing up at the border if the punishments inflicted upon them there are severe enough. Topics include deterrence dates back to the former U.S. president Bill Clinton's presidency.

The article reports on Robert Mueller, an American attorney who served as the sixth director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Information about his role as head of the Special Counsel investigation of Russian interference in the U.S. elections and related matters in 2016, is highlighted. Also emphasized is Mueller's dedication, integrity and self-efficacy on his public service.

The article reports on the political violence occurred during a protest at the Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kiev, Ukraine on February 20, 2014 wherein a number of demonstrators have been killed for demonstrating against the government of President Viktor Yanukovych. It mentions that a total of 48 protesters and four police officers have died following a clashed between protesters and paramilitary police forces of the president.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of a journey with refugees who left Eritrea for Sudan, to Khartoum, then into the Sahara, and into Libya.

The article discusses entrepreneur Andreas Apostolopoulos. Born in Greece, Apostolopoulos immigrated to Canada in 1969 and began work cutting up chicken in a restaurant. He has since built a real-estate empire worth an estimated $800 million. In 2009 Apostolopoulos bought the Pontiac Silverdome stadium in Detroit, Michigan for $583,000. He envisions staging soccer matches and other events there.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of playing a craps games and his beliefs about luck.