Tonight at 9 pm Eastern, 6 pm in California, the candidates for governor in that fair state will face off for the first debate since they advanced in a June primary.

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A notebook, a pen and a small stand to use as a desk ― author Dina Hosam Abu Rabee, 26, carried these items as she fled airstrikes, writing in tents and sometimes by the light of a mobile phone. Again...

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Running for city council in Clearwater, Florida is a nonpartisan affair, and you would think that a candidate’s opinions about the city’s bullying by the Church of Scientology would matter more than a...

We’ve really been enjoying the photos sent to us by Scientology’s former film director, Mitch Brisker, and the stories he’s been telling us about what it was like to make these movies.

President Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the ambassador to China. The White House later said the U.S. had no plans for such a sale.

The police in Los Angeles, New York, Sydney and elsewhere are responding to incidents related to a social media trend involving running through Scientology churches.

On Monday, we wrote about Josephine Riesman’s powerful new book about Beck that comes out on October 6 and was excerpted last week in New York magazine.

Stevyn Colgan on policing, Douglas Adams, QI, folklore, eccentricity, his new book Awakenings, and why all you really need is enough.

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Your Proprietor returned home from last weekend’s HowdyCon convention in Connecticut and was promptly waylaid by a cold.

We are writing less these days about Scientology’s network of drug rehabs, Narconon, because the rehabs just aren’t as important in the Scientology movement as they used to be.