Starring swimsuit-clad cast members plucked from obscurity, the reboot of Britain’s Love Island promised to be the dating show for our self-made, self-aware era. After a series of high-profile suicides, including that of former host Caroline Flack, a darker reality set in. Ahead of the new season, here’s a look inside the highly produced machine.

After an abandoned well began spewing toxic, salty water onto her Permian Basin land, Ashley Watt would stop at nothing to determine the cause—and to hold Chevron accountable.

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In 1945, a father and his young son set out across the bering strait, fleeing soviet russia for a better life in america. Neither knew how perilous their journey would become.

How Nassim Taleb turned the inevitability of disaster into an investment strategy.