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The Sackler dynasty’s ruthless marketing of painkillers has generated billions of dollars—and millions of addicts.

In Baltimore and other segregated cities, the life-expectancy gap between African-Americans and whites is as much as 20 years. One young woman’s struggle shows why.

Here’s what’s become of them. World Health 30 Years Ago, Romania Deprived Thousands of Babies of Human Contact ...

The rise of Modi and the Hindu far right.

Climate change is propelling enormous human migrations as it transforms global agriculture and remakes the world order — and no country stands to gain more than Russia.

In 2003, the destruction of one particular statue in Baghdad made worldwide headlines and came to be a symbol of western victory in Iraq. But there was so much more to it—or rather, so much less.

How an obscure legal document turned New York’s court system into a debt-collection machine.

“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.” Six months after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, a member of the Presidential ...

Last year, three cryptocurrency enthusiasts bought a cruise ship. They named it the Satoshi, and dreamed of starting a floating libertarian utopia. It didn’t work out ...

Telephone poles began to appear around the same time that white Americans started lynching black Americans.

On the history of the Bund, an armed, socialist anti-Zionist group that was once the most popular Jewish party in Poland until they were murdered in the Holocaust.