The Do It Well and Leave Something Witchy Issue
The Complicated Beauty of the Persian Nose
Iran has the highest rate of nose surgery in the world per capita. For Persian women and some men, the operation is a marker not just of physical beauty but also of wealth and social priorities.
Did a White Guy Steal a Popular Gossip Site from Three Black Teenagers?
Oh No They Didn't grew from a LiveJournal community to an honest-to-god brand, but the people who run it today have been accused of exploiting the original founders.
Atlas Mugged: How a Libertarian Paradise in Chile Fell Apart
Two years after Galt's Gulch Chile was founded, the utopian project is mired in personal and legal conflicts and investors now claim that the guy in charge is a sociopath and a con man.
Red Gold: A Quixotic Quest to Find Beef in Cuba
In Cuba, I'm assured by locals, it is a greater crime to slaughter a cow than it is to slaughter a person. Why is beef so precious to this country's communist dictatorship?
The Time John Waters’s Girls Escaped a Kidnapping
In this excerpt of Edgewise: A Picture of Cookie Mueller, two men abduct three actresses who have starred in several of John Waters's classic movies.
The Syrian Civil War Is Keeping Lovers Apart
Long-distance marriages between Syrians living in Israel and those still in the motherland are common in the Golan Heights.
Pregnant Russians Are Going to Florida to Give Birth in Warm Weather
Mothers-to-be are crowding the shores of Miami.