colin's October 2026 List

We asked 100 scientists about unsolved problems in their fields. They sent back provocations, on the origins of life, the possibilities for human progress and much more.

The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administration.

Mosab Abu Toha writes about his and his family’s schools in Gaza, the use of tents as makeshift schools, and the state of education after the war with Israel.

Everyone knew what happened at Cornell was wrong.

Records reveal how fraternity members responded when a fellow student accused them of sexual assault.

Solar geoengineering could buy humanity time against climate change, or trigger a dangerous new arms race. A first-of-its-kind simulation offered a glimpse of what happens when geopolitics takes the wheel.

By studying fire scars in ancient wood, many scientists have become convinced that Indigenous people transformed North America long before Christopher Columbus arrived.

In remote parts of the country that lack internet and cellphone service, isolated gauchos communicate through daily bulletins on AM stations. Jordan Salama reports from Patagonia.

A farmer in Rhode Island raised a 3,156-pound pumpkin this year, setting a new measure for the greatest of all gourds.

fear of capital letters has a gripped a generation, but they might not know it's part of a long, underground tradition.

A teenage boy went into surgery for a broken arm and emerged with brain damage. His mother was determined to figure out what had happened.

Lauren Collins writes on the French student protests that have spread across the country, involving left-wing politicians from La France Insoumise.

Grand Theft Auto 6 is expected to be biggest video game blockbuster ever. Here’s the inside story of how Rockstar made it.

Donald Trump has abandoned the Western order.

The long read: After his mother died, Otto became convinced he’d been wronged by the forensic investigators - and that one of them was a fraud. The truth was even stranger

The internet told them Europe was a social paradise. Turns out the trains are awful, the health care isn’t free, and people can be really mean.

The stakes in Ukraine are much larger than the fate of one nation.

When the grandson of the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups empire came after Hershey’s for ruining his family’s classic recipe, I followed him, and entered the molten belly of our crumbling world.

Fundraising costs gobble up most of the funds raised. Billions are spent on TV ads that have virtually no impact. Candidates may win or lose, but the consulting class always wins.

An exclusive excerpt from ‘Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East’ examines how bank accounts linked the president’s son-in-law, and former senior adviser, to Israel, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia.