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Late last year, the beloved Oakland queer bar Friends and Family announced the news that it was closing. Their community was so upset, devoted customers even threw the bar a funeral. Their closure left many wondering why it seems so hard for the few bars that serve lesbian and queer people in the Bay Area to survive. It turns out, according to one queer sociologist, that there's actually a magic formula that queer bars need to succeed.

The Trump era has brought a resurgence of the "alpha male." New Yorker writer Charles Bethea reports on camps where men crawl through mud and sit in ice baths in an effort to reclaim masculinity.

What are the implications for the oil market and the broader global economy if the Strait of Hormuz remains largely closed for months?

Jessica Valenti writes that this plan is "a how-to guide for subjugating girls and women" by pushing them out of college and forcing them into marriage and motherhood.

Researchers have observed a "civil war" amongst wild chimpanzees for the first time.

If you collected Pokemon cards as a kid, here's hoping you held onto them. The Japanese franchise has been popular for decades, but it's become the latest speculative boom.

These foreign nationals are the silent engines that keep many of the region's cities running, but the war has exposed some of their biggest vulnerabilities.

Harrison Hill's book The Oracle's Daughter is a story about the terror of losing the self — but it's also, gratifyingly, a story about finding the way back to it.

Coppola and Jacobs have been friends for decades and the film is a collage of the many references and influences that have marked the designer's rise.

Yann Martel's new novel tells two tales: one a lost classical epic, the other a personal tragedy told in footnotes. NPR's Scott Simon talks with him about his new novel, Son of Nobody.

Israeli support for the war is still high but waning, after three weeks of fighting with Iran.

At least 64 people were killed, including at least 13 children, in a strike on a hospital in Sudan's western Darfur region last week, the World Health Organization said Saturday.