haunted attractions Medieval torture museum in Malta turns horror into unexpected family fun Popkin

books New biography captures Doonesbury's 50-year sweep of American life Ruben Bolling

politics Alarming letter from Senator Ron Wyden draws attention to whatever the CIA is up to Rob Beschizza

History Scaphism: the ancient Persian execution where insects ate you alive Ellsworth Toohey

How tax dollars fund the great insect protein swindle Ellsworth Toohey

Disney Mickey Mouse is a mutant — "always a reflection of the culture around him" Mark Frauenfelder

slavery As Nottoway "Plantation & Resort" burns, it's a great time to remind you that plantation weddings are wrong, period Jennifer Sandlin

olympics The 1904 Olympics Marathon gold medalist won while hallucinating on rat poison and brandy Ellsworth Toohey

Comic Books Read this incredible essay about Magneto, Judaism, and the legacy of the Holocaust Thom Dunn

rowling J.K. Rowling claims Nazis didn't burn trans books, issues lawsuit threat when called a holocaust denier Rob Beschizza

crime Guilty pleas from"Goon squad" of racist cops who tortured, raped and shot black suspects in Mississippi Rob Beschizza

music Legendary lost Steely Dan song "Second Arrangement" surfaces Ruben Bolling

architecture Mark the 130th anniversary of the Chicago World's Fair by reading "The Devil in the White City" this summer Jennifer Sandlin

documentaries The Forever Prisoner, a documentary about the US torture machine by Alex Gibney Elías Villoro

History English commoners' rights come from The Charter of the Forest, not the Magna Carta Elías Villoro

Alex Lubin's book, "Never-Ending War on Terror", explains it Elías Villoro

trauma Arizona's Carefarm is where grief can be embraced, not avoided Elías Villoro

animal rights HelloFresh still using illegal primate labor, says PETA: "Monkeys are chained around the neck and forced to toil" Elías Villoro

books Cult of the Dead, an aptly-named book about the history of Christianity Elías Villoro

Weird 1936 device claimed to create dimples in users Popkin