New Order

Pet dogs often have a peaceful death that forestalls protracted suffering and pain. Why can’t we do the same for humans? By Joseph Pierre.

Death Cab for Cutie

In the last eight years, 15 human feet have washed up on the shore. By Stacy Conradt.

The Ross Sisters

Can we treat psychosis by listening to the voices in our heads? By T. M. Luhrmann.

Sofiya Alexandra

When searching for an apartment in New York, people typically have a few key features they're looking for. In Caroline Shadood’s case, her apartment in Glendale, Queens really has the “quiet neighbors” part nailed. By David Colon.

Veterans For Peace UK

David Buckel’s memory is dangerous to environmental organizations’ more moderate calls for legislative gradualism and personal lifestyle change. By Jack Downey.

Gin Wigmore

With her latest book, Natural Causes, Barbara Ehrenreich notes that there’s an age at which death no longer requires much explanation.

A Stephen Hawking Tribute

Nina Simone

Postmodern Jukebox ft. Morgan James

Nirvana, Annie Clark

David S. Reynolds reviews "The Afterlives of Specimens: Science, Mourning, and Whitman’s Civil War" by Lindsay Tuggle and "Drum-Taps: The Complete 1865 Edition" by Walt Whitman, edited by Lawrence Kramer.

Carried away by love—for risk and for each other—two of the world's best freedivers went to the limits of their sport. Only one came back. By Gary Smith. (June 16, 2003)

Decapitation is a surefire way to deliver a quick and painless death, right? In actuality, an increasingly large body of historical and scientific evidence suggests that beheading doesn't, in fact, deliver instant death.

Tim Sommer argues that Sirius XM should ban Nugent over his Parkland school shooting comments.