Mind Space

Julián Gómez and his 12-year-old daughter, Laura, disappeared during what was meant to be a routine overnight sailing trip on their boat, El Albatros, on May 14, 2012. Despite no outward signs of danger, Julián’s wife, María, felt an instinctive unease as they departed. When father and daughter failed to return, María contacted authorities, initiating…

The state of Tennessee may soon carry out its first execution of a woman in more than two centuries after the Tennessee Supreme Court approved a request to move forward with the death sentence of Christa Gail Pike. Pike, now 49 and the only woman on Tennessee’s death row, was just 18 when she committed…

A Las Vegas museum is disputing disturbing allegations from a Texas mother who believes one of its plastinated cadavers is actually the body of her late son. The claim, which has resurfaced online, has revived a years-long struggle for answers surrounding a death she has never fully accepted. Kim Erick believes that the remains of…

Locals call it a driveway periscope. The nickname sounds playful, yet it describes the device with surprising accuracy. What first appears to be an odd little tower standing at the edge of a rural property is actually a practical solution to a problem familiar to anyone who lives far from the city. Many country homes…

The House vote was technically symbolic, yet its choreography carried real weight. Legislators were not simply casting a procedural ballot. They were positioning themselves in front of a national audience that has grown increasingly sensitive to language about ideology. When two hundred eighty five members placed themselves on record rejecting what the resolution called socialism…