I began talking about myself in the third person earlier this year, when I was going through the initial stages of a divorce. While I’m certain many divorces have been uglier and more stressful, mine was bad enough. And I found myself paralyzed by the anx

One November day in 2013, in a suburb outside Los Angeles, Mark Vidal decided to download Tinder. He set up his profile, and then made a choice: He’d only ever dated women — including a seven-year relationship with his high school sweetheart — but in a moment of honesty and curiosity, he set his preferences to show him both men and women.

It's 2017 and everyone has a podcast. That includes a good number that talk about sex—240 under the "sexuality" category in iTunes alone. We checked out dozens of the funniest, smartest, smuttiest sex podcasts out there and picked 10 favorites with a four-category rating system, so you can weed out what you like.

An aerial view of the Puna Geothermal Venture, a plant that lies just downslope of the erupting Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island. Smoke rises from the lava flow on May 4 as it made its way through the Leilani Estates subdivision near Pahoa. (Bruce O

INDYGO Pioneertown: The weird Western set in the California desert Pioneertown, California is a surreal place. Its history does not follow a normal narrative. Built as a movie set in the 1940s by Hollywood moviemakers, its main feature is a four-block-lon

Katie, a Canadian businesswoman who runs a small online store called The Witchery, was surprised when she got an email from Square a couple of weeks ago, telling her that her account had been temporarily suspended for selling "occult" items. The online credit card processing service, with the ubiquitous white box that plugs into iPads and iPhones, had become an integral part of her business, both online and in-person.

The meeting of 16th and Mission streets in San Francisco is a busy place. During the day, bible-thumping evangelists with portable microphone amps half-preach, half-yell to passersby in Spanish, trying to wake them up from their daily routines. At night, near the same intersection, a man named Maurice and his partner Star try a different approach for bringing people together.

In the days since his inauguration, Donald Trump has given women around the country—and the world—new motivation to fight for equality. After the Women’s March ended, which was estimated to be the largest peaceful demonstration in U.S. history, many were left wondering: Now what? If you’re reading this, we’re confident there will be more marches, calls to senators, and civic engagement in your future.

Downtown San Francisco’s Tenderloin district could soon be home to the first government-sanctioned transgender district in the world. Last week, San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim announced legislation that would create the Compton’s Transgender, Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual District in San Francisco.

I've fallen in love with Southern Arizona, thanks to the contributors and guests of today's show. San Francisco-based journalist Breena Kerr shines a light on the colourful, quirky afterworld of old copper mining town, Bisbee. I love this piece. Megan Kimble of Edible Baja Arizona reveals Tucson's rich, inclusive, community-based food scene, of which great restaurants are just one thing.

Just a few years ago, Canggu in Bali was a tiny village surrounded by paddy fields. These days, its rapid development as a surfing spot seems to throw up a new grey wall every day. But while the break-neck speed of building brings growing pains, it's created perfect conditions for one group: graffiti artists.

If you’ve ever stepped to the edge of a high rooftop and felt that you might jump off, despite the fact that you don’t want to die, you’re not alone—but most people don’t know that. In reality, many people experience this feeling at one time or another, according to Jennifer Hames, who led the study, “An urge to jump affirms the urge to live,” for the Journal of Affective Disorders.

March marked the first time in a drought-parched decade that Anza-Borrego Desert State Park—located in the Colorado Desert about two hours outside San Diego—saw 10 inches of rain. This is according to Norb Ruhmke, acting district superintendent for the Colorado Desert District. In a normal full year, he says, the Anza-Borrego desert gets six inches.

There's a new global insomnia map to waste your time looking at make you feel less alone while you're not sleeping. The map uses Twitter data from the last 24 hours to track people around the globe who are staying up all night, phones in hand. It searches for tweets with phrases like "can't sleep," in 17 of the world's most-spoken languages, then plots them geographically, each dot representing a cluster of sleepless tweeters in one region.

Ideology, privation, compromise: Washington, DC owes its layout to all three. Yet the city on the hill still embodies the hopes its founders had for a brand new country. By contrast, Donald Trump has been reluctant even to live in the White House. Between Christmas and New Year, Breena Kerr took to the capital's empty streets to report on the dreams that made the city and the ideas that will shape it in years to come.

When I heard that Air India had created a women-only section on its domestic flights last week, I breathed a sigh of temporary relief. Every country has a social problem (or many) that come up again and again, defying attempts to get them under control and exposing deep-seated cultural beliefs that are often unpleasant and vexing.