200,000 brave and/or insane people have supposedly signed up for a one-way mission to Mars. But the truth about Mars One, the company behind the effort, is much weirder (and far more worrying) than anyone has previously reported. By Elmo Keep Illustrations by Josh Cochran Photographs by Daniel Boud…

GQ Longform The Great Paper Caper ‣ Years of running drugs and boosting cars left FRANK BOURASSA thinking: There's got to be an easier way to earn a dishonest living. That's when he nerved up the idea to make his fortune. (Literally.) Which is how Frank became the most prolific counterfeiter in…

It gets down to well below zero in Oymyakon, Russia, long known as the coldest inhabited place on Earth. If that kind of climate is hard to wrap your brain around, such a temperature is so cold that people here regularly consume frozen meat, keep their cars running 24/7 and must warm the ground with…

M arcus Wanner needed a little adventure in his life. A skinny 15-year-old brainiac with wire-frame glasses and wavy brown hair, he was the eldest of five, home-schooled by their mother, a devout Catholic, near Roanoke, Virginia. Shuttling Marcus between home, church and the Boy Scouts seemed like…

T he emergency room of the main Staten Island University Hospital sits on Seaview Avenue, just up the road from the waters of lower New York Bay. It is impossible to think about the pending landfall of Zohydro on Staten Island without recalling the days prior to the arrival of Hurricane Sandy.…

Firefighters extinguishing a nail bomb explosion of a Greenwich Village townhouse in 1970. By Marty Lederhandler/AP Images. Ever since 9/11, the threat of terrorist bombs on U.S. soil has become a major concern, drawing the attention of hordes of federal investigators and journalists. What few…

Sheldon Adelson’s Macao casinos have helped make him America’s third-richest man. Credit Photograph by Mike Clark / AFP / Getty Images Last October, Sheldon Adelson, the gaming multibillionaire, accompanied a group of Republican donors to the White House to meet with George W. Bush. They wanted to…

Last winter, William MacAskill and his wife Amanda moved into a Union Square apartment that I was sharing with several friends in New York. At first, I knew nothing about Will except what I could glean from some brief encounters, like his shaggy blond hair and the approximation of a beard. He was…

Boyhood Watson was just 4 years old when it beat the best human contestants on Jeopardy! As it grows up and goes out into the world, the question becomes: How afraid of it should we be? Illustrations by Zohar Lazar On the first weekend of January, many of the leading researchers in artificial…

It is seven o’clock on a humid Los Angeles evening, and business is winding down at a suburban car showroom. I walk past a team of guys polishing Japanese hybrids with bright white rags, past the twenty-five-cent gumball machines and into the air-conditioned office. An attorney has arranged this…

Paul McCartney Opens Up About Lennon, Yoko, and More Our greatest living rock star on why Lennon's a martyr, who gets the credit, and touring in his seventies. Most Popular Tom Craig/Esquire UK version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"? By By the time it reached Osaka, Japan, in late April,…

“Allison doesn’t just find us actors; she finds us people we want to work with the rest of our lives,” the director Judd Apatow said. Credit Photograph by Dolly Faibyshev The first scene of “Other Space,” a new sci-fi sitcom by Paul Feig, which streams on Yahoo on April 14th, begins with one of the…

The logos for Flying Squirrels, Hartford Yard Goats, and Akron RubberDucks. Photo illustration by Juliana Jiménez. Logos courtesy of the teams. When Connecticut’s most prominent Minor League Baseball franchise moves into a 9,000-seat ballpark in the state capital next year, it will be renamed for an…

Welcome to an age of sharing. Illustration by Joe Magee T he red flags and marching songs of Syriza during the Greek crisis , plus the expectation that the banks would be nationalised, revived briefly a 20th-century dream: the forced destruction of the market from above. For much of the 20th century…

Santtu Mustonen IF you live in the United States, you probably do some form of recycling. It’s likely that you separate paper from plastic and glass and metal. You rinse the bottles and cans, and you might put food scraps in a container destined for a composting facility. As you sort everything into…

Alan Carlson, a restaurant owner and chef, was involved in a 2003 class-action suit against American Express. A decade later, a Supreme Court ruling enabled American Express to prevent merchants from bringing class actions. Jason Henry for The New York Times On Page 5 of a credit card contract used…

Devil Music: A History of the Occult in Rock & Roll From The Beatles and the Stones to Led Zep, Alice Cooper and Black Sabbath, how the dark arts cast a spell on popular music On June 1, 1967 , the most famous musicians in the world released a new long-playing record whose jacket depicted a gallery…

On Feb. 20, 1992, more American homes tuned into The Simpsons than they did The Cosby Show or the Winter Olympics from Albertville, France. A foul-mouthed cartoon on a fourth-place network bested the Huxtables and the world's best amateur athletes. Fox over NBC and CBS—its first-ever victory in…

SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 2016 Richard Simmons opened his front door, frail and trembling. Mauro Oliveira, a visual artist who was also Simmons’ masseur and former assistant, greeted him on the front porch, concerned about his friend. After receiving an ominous phone call from Simmons, Oliveira had driven…

Feature Why it’s getting harder to stop multinational corporations. April 11, 2016 CHISUMBANJE, Zimbabwe — Joyce Chachengwa woke up one morning to find her crops — her only source of food and income — ground into the dirt. Chisumbanje is a small village in eastern Zimbabwe, right on the border with…

Mayor Jean Drapeau stands in the Olympic Stadium, Montreal.Photograph: Graham Bezant/Toronto Star/Getty T here is a moment before all our global sporting extravaganzas when it all seems poised on a knife edge. Helicopters hover above the stadium, keyed-up athletes shuffle and bounce with excess…

(This is part one of a two-part feature. ) A bout an hour-long ferry ride off the northeast coast of Newfoundland, where the frigid waters of the Atlantic Ocean crash onto a jutting granite shoreline, is the tiny island of Fogo – a place so remote that conspiracy theorists believe it to be one of…

The biodiesel factory, a three-story steel skeleton crammed with pipes and valves, squatted on a concrete slab between a railroad track and a field of storage tanks towering over the Houston Ship Channel. Jeffrey Kimes, an engineer for the Environmental Protection Agency, arrived there at 9 a.m. on…

Joey Ramone, left, and Dee Dee Ramone at the Roundhouse in London on July 4, 1976. Gus Stewart/Redferns BLACKPOOL, England — “Ramones forever!” C. J. Ramone yelled to a tightly packed crowd at the Rebellion Festival here earlier this month, and a little roar rippled through a sea of bright-pink…

From Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images. Now, I’m not braggin’, babe, so don’t put me down, but I used to be thebossest Beach Boys fan around. Picture me in the early 60s, an EastCoast version of Richard Dreyfuss in American Graffiti , right down tothe madras shirt and tentative grin. I was so…

Photo Illustration by Matthieu Bourel. I. The Back Door His name is not Opsec, but I will call him that to guard his privacy. Inwebspace he is known as a grand master of the dark art of hacking. He isone of a small elite—maybe a hundred, maybe fewer—all of whom aresecretive and obsessed with…

For seven years before the murder, Dee Dee and Gypsy Rose Blancharde lived in a small pink bungalow on West Volunteer Way in Springfield, Missouri. Their neighbors liked them. “’Sweet’ is the word I’d use,” a former friend of Dee Dee’s told me not too long ago. Once you met them, people said, they…

Once, Iceland’s top industry was fishing. Then, heavy industry took over. Now, tourism drives economic growth in Iceland. What are the challenges that increased tourism creates for a unique nation like Iceland? By Andrew Sheivachman Foreword: The Coming Perils of Overtourism As Skift enters its…

NEW YORK - 1983: Musician Lou Reed posing for a portrait in New York City in 1983. (Photo by Waring Abbott/Getty Images) Photo: Waring Abbott/Getty Images Way back in high school, Lou Reed formed a band, got a record deal, and even released a promising single. But his dyspeptic nature alienated his…

J oe Biden’s personal compartment on the modified Boeing 757 that serves as Air Force Two had the feel of a motel manager’s office equipped with state-of-the-art communications gear. The room held a little black couch with a pullout bed he had slept on more times than he could count over the last…

President Trump with union leaders and workers in the Oval Office on Monday. Mr. Trump has discovered there are a lot of things he likes about his new home, the White House. Doug Mills/The New York Times President Trump, who flew across the country on hundreds of nights during the 2016 campaign to…

Credit Illustration by Floc’H Of the miseries regularly inflicted on humankind, some are so minor and yet, while they last, so painful that one wonders how, after all this time, a remedy cannot have been found. If scientists do not have a cure for cancer, that makes sense. But the common cold, the…

O ne day late last November, unit B-2B of the Toronto South Detention Centre was on lockdown. During a lockdown, inmates are placed in pairs in seven-by-16-foot cells for 24 hours a day. The South, as it’s called, is a remand centre for men who are awaiting trial—in other words, they are legally…

WIRED Logo How The New York Times Is Clawing Its Way Into the Future SCROLL DOWN The New York Times Claws Its Way Into the Future The New York Times Claws Its Way Into the Future Arthur Gregg Sulzberger doesn’t remember the first time he visited the family business. He was young, he says, no older…

Anti-war protesters rally together in Washington DC at a demonstration about the killings at Kent State. Leif Skoogfors / Getty Images A prescient passage from a forgotten book has been making the rounds since Donald Trump’s election. It’s plucked from a 1998 book titled Achieving our Country . The…

Broad and Market Street, Newark, New Jersey, circa 1960s (public domain/OldNewark.com) In an excerpt from his new book, Richard Florida warns of “the central crisis of our times”—the growing cleavage between superstar cities and those left behind. Updated: April 10, 2017 Editor’s Note: Listen to…

In the summer of 2011, chefs were the coolest people alive, Gourmet was two years dead, and food magazines, as a whole, were crushingly boring. There was no single, homogenous “food media,” of course, nor is there one now. But there is still an identifiable set: the mass market easy-dinner rags, the…

Choose Your Background Toppings Pepperoni Mushrooms Olives Asparagus Anchovies Ham Pineapple Peppers Extras Clear Choices How Do You Like Your Pizza? Featured in Bloomberg Businessweek, March 20-26, 2017. Subscribe now You may not be surprised to learn that pizza production at Domino’s hasn’t…