Flicks from the underground: By David Hudson. Berlin transforms subway tunnels into movie screens.

Closing the Straight of Hormuz could ignite a war and a global depression. Oil's only one part of the picture

Researchers have sent labeled objects floating down the lost river. None have ever been seen again

No hashtags or Facebook memes for the victims in St. Petersburg, where a gruesome attack is portrayed as blowback

How Hollywood created an unsettling Big City underworld to magnify our deepest fears

Around 200 "lunar pits" were discovered, yet their origins are still a mystery

Garner sold loose cigarettes; Alton Sterling hawked CDs — and they both died at the hands of police

Will the Supreme Court's ostrich-like ruling shut down the medical marijuana movement?

Two of this year's most tragic stories have one thing in common: They remind us of our own powerlessness

A Texas mining project was approved despite contamination fears, exposing a troubling pattern of aquifer exemption

Bush is talking tough about nukes in Iran and North Korea. But critics say by illegally testing and building nuclear weapons, the U.S. is fueling a new arms race.

Salon 21st: Print magazines try to keep up with the Web. But the more you surf, the less you'll need them. Scott Rosenberg comments on the explosion of magazines that cover the Web.

Nuclear weapons design is divided by dramatic generational markers

Sharps & Flats is a weekly music review roundup in Salon Magazine

An underground resistance of Afghan women risks torture and execution to alert the world to the regime's atrocities. One freedom fighter tells Salon her story.