Noura Jackson Credit... Harris Mizrahi for The New York Times Feature She Was Convicted of Killing Her Mother. Prosecutors Withheld the Evidence That Would Have Freed Her. By the time Noura Jackson’s
The Uncounted An on-the-ground investigation reveals that the U.S.-led battle against ISIS — hailed as the most precise air campaign in history — is killing far more Iraqi civilians than the coalition
This is a re-hosting of the original Assert article I wrote in April 2007, during the epic rise and fall of Power of Two Games. I’m reprinting it here on my personal site now that Pow2 is defunct and
T he snow burst through the trees with no warning but a last-second whoosh of sound, a two-story wall of white and Chris Rudolph’s piercing cry: “Avalanche! Elyse!” The very thing the 16 skiers and sn
O ne day last summer, around noon, I called Athena, a 13-year-old who lives in Houston, Texas. She answered her phone—she’s had an iPhone since she was 11—sounding as if she’d just woken up. We chatte
Workers in the East Side Access tunnel, which will connect Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan with the Long Island Rail Road. The project’s costs have ballooned to nearly $3.5 billion for each new mi
"We are just like journalists," said the younger man, smiling in his tight-fitting pink polo shirt that revealed significant time spent at the gym. Money for information, straight up "We need to get s
Reality, Tina Satter’s play-turned-film starring Sydney Sweeney as Reality Winner, is now on HBO . Reality Winner grew up in a carefully kept manufactured home on the edge of a cattle farm 100 miles n
The first thing you need to understand about the building that, until very recently, housed the Russian Consulate in San Francisco — a city where topography is destiny, where wealth and power concentr
Photo illustration by Slate . Images by Hallmark. At a rally in November 2015, Donald Trump heralded, “ If I become president, we’re all going to be saying ‘Merry Christmas’ again, that I can tell you
Chad was named for a mistake. In the eighteen-hundreds, European explorers arrived at the marshy banks of a vast body of freshwater in Central Africa. Because locals referred to the area as chad , the
It was three days after Roy Moore lost the U.S. Senate election in Alabama, and the mayor was up early. His candidate had failed, but the reasons Charlie Gilchrist had supported him remained. He still
T here were six hours during the night of April 10, 2014, when the entire population of Washington State had no 911 service. People who called for help got a busy signal. One Seattle woman dialed 911
I. The Hack The large, sunny room at Volgograd State University smelled like its contents: 45 college students, all but one of them male, hunched over keyboards, whispering and quietly clacking away a
A telephone pole near Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Credit... Jessica Hill for The New York Times Newtown Is ‘Still So Raw,’ 5 Years After Sandy Hook Shooting The country is often rem
T he massacre in Las Vegas this October earned a macabre superlative: the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, with 58 innocents killed and more than 500 injured. The outpouring of attention and s
It was Eurogamer's Christmas Party at the end of last week, and that means that there were Christmas crackers knocking about and we were all showered with magnificent Christmas cracker gifts. Miniatur
For years, Rudy North woke up at 9 A . M . and read the Las Vegas Review-Journal while eating a piece of toast. Then he read a novel—he liked James Patterson and Clive Cussler—or, if he was feeling mo
The Times Square subway station. Credit... Photographs by John Taggart for The New York Times System Failure How Politics and Bad Decisions Starved New York’s Subways Disruptions and delays have roile
The Lost Children of Tuam Ireland wanted to forget. But the dead don’t always stay buried. Ireland Wanted to Forget. But the Dead Don’t Always Stay Buried. TUAM, Ireland Behold a child. A slight girl
The Molea Cemetery, surrounded by thousands of "graves." Deep in EVE Online, in the backwater system of Molea, you'll find something unlike anything else in all of its virtual galaxy. Orbiting the fir
The Turing Test is a first person puzzle adventure game based on Jupiter’s moon Europa. It tells the story of a group of astronauts and an artificial intelligence called TOM. I am David Jones, design
On Photography The History of Photography is a History of Shattered Glass Air Force One departing Las Vegas past the broken windows of the Mandalay Bay hotel, Oct. 4, 2017. Credit... Mike Blake/Reuter
Ashley Volk and Sam Siatta early on their wedding day. Credit... Devin Yalkin for The New York Times Vows Love’s Road Home Ashley Volk waited for Sam Siatta to return from Afghanistan. She couldn’t ha
I met a mysterious old man this last Saturday. He told me he was 87, and I did not believe it. Then, to prove it, he lifted his huge round sunglasses and made me stare at his eyes, which were light bl
Destiny 2 is here! Have you noticed? Oh, I have so many memories of the first one: those huge Romantic skyboxes, that tangle of rusted cars, piled high against a patchwork wall, the roar of the shotgu
When I played Kevin Tom's Football Manager as an impressionable child in the early 1980s, I was certain there were teams that had a genuine grudge against me. This is why I still harbour a dread of Mi
Last year, on December 4th, the screenwriter Brian Koppelman posed a question to Evan McMullin, who, a month before, had received roughly half of one per cent of the vote in the Presidential race. Kop
This is what it’s like to be a refugee. Thousands of miles away, people haggle over policy details, about whether you are a risk and a burden, or an asset full of potential, a victim, or a potential t
It all starts with Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag. The game's sort-of villain, Olivier Garneau, disappears around halfway through a trip to meet with shareholders in Chicago, as you learn from emails
It would be safe to say that I am not a proper gamer. So it was with absolutely no shame that in the mid-'90s my main games console was actually a crappy white plastic Walkman-alike with a black and w
Trilobites What Makes a Woman a Good Dancer? Watch the Hips, a Study Says Dancing women were mapped onto avatars which viewers rated, helping researchers understand which dance moves are considered mo
Drivers at a rest area between Zhengzhou and Shanghai. Unmarked trucks carry loads of iPhones destined for other parts of China. Credit... Gilles Sabrié for The New York Times China Rules How China Bu
“Arnold and Tim, if you’d come up, we’re going to give you a nice, beautiful check,” Donald Trump said. He held up an oversize check, the kind they give to people who win golf tournaments. It was for
Updated January 25, 2017 At dawn on a warm September morning in 2013, a minivan pulled up to a shattered villa in the town of Azaz, Syria. A long-bearded 29-year-old white man emerged from the buildin
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