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Jemele Hill has been stirring up conversations with her writing since her days at Michigan State University. In our “The First Time” video series, the Atlantic columnist and former ESPN broadcaster recalls when she participated in activism through her journalism — her story about reverse racism set a record at …

Novelist Don Winslow has spent the last 20 years of his life absorbing more news about Mexico’s narco wars than most of us could stomach. This month he delivers the Border, the fiery conclusion of his sweeping drug-war trilogy. Clocking in at over 700 pages, it is his most overtly …

Black Dahlia obsessives, take note — TNT’s new drama series, I Am the Night (which debuted on January 28th), is getting a companion podcast that will dig into the true events which inspired the series and made George Hodel a primary suspect in Elizabeth Short’s 1947 unsolved murder. Root of …

Earlier this month, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam granted clemency to Cyntoia Brown, who was serving a 51-year sentence for felony murder. Fourteen years ago, a teenaged Brown was prosecuted in Tennessee for shooting and killing a 43-year-old man who had solicited the 16-year-old Brown for sex in 2004. She said …

When Michelle Kramer moved to Country Club Hills, Illinois, she didn’t know much about R. Kelly — but soon, her youngdaughter, Dominique Gardner, became a superfan. In 2010, shortly after she graduated from high school, Gardner met the singer, who lived in the nearby Chicago suburb of Olympia Fields, through …

Contributing editor Jeff Goodell recaps the 2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP) in Katowice, Poland and explains how the Trump administration subverted efforts to curb climate change efforts at the conference in this exclusive Rolling Stone video. “Previous COPs have been chaotic and politically charged, but this is the …

The Innocent Man, Netflix’s new binge-worthy true-crime series, is a six-part examination of two seemingly unrelated murder cases that occurred in Ada, Oklahoma, during the 1980s. Without giving too much away, here’s what you need to know about the murders of Debbie Carter and Denice Haraway, and the four men …

In an exclusive new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, former model Babi Christina Engelhardt claimed for the first time that she had a secret eight-year affair with director Woody Allen that began in 1976, when she was just 16 years old and he was 41. While Engelhardt, now 59, said …

On November 29th — following Christopher Watts’s guilty plea, and his sentencing for the murder of his pregnant wife and two young daughters — the Weld County, Colorado, District Attorney’s office released over 2,000 pages of documents and numerous videos pertaining to the case. While Watts has not offered a …

It’s been a little over a week since Christopher Watts agreed to plead guilty to the August murders of his pregnant wife Shan’ann, 34, and their two daughters, Bella, four, and Celeste, three, in order to avoid a possible death sentence. The unexpected decision signaled a remarkably quick conclusion to …