Digg Explainer

As summer came to an end, the online content did not. These are 10 of the most popular and important stories from the last month, as determined by Digg readers.

It's an internet fight and only the funniest memes will survive. This week's challengers: Keke Palmer, Aliens at Area 51 and more.

It's an internet fight and only the funniest meme will emerge victorious. This week's challengers? Bret Stephens, Minecraft Bees and more.

Lots of good and bad stuff happened on the internet this month. Shockingly, even *more* stuff fell in between.

Man, it's a hot one. A hot month for weird internet content, that is. Here are the ten stories from July that mattered most on Digg.

A plan to attack Area 51 went viral on Facebook, and a trove of memes soon followed. Some of the posts have irony layered so thick that it could reach the stars.

The NCAA men's basketball tournament is upon us. And if you want to watch it but you don't want to shell out and effectively pad both Big Cable's and Big College Sports' bottom lines, here's what you should do.

On Thursday, Der Spiegel released a long apology and note about the reporter, Claas Relotius, revealing that he had engaged in "large-scale journalistic fraud" for years.

Tight races have inspired lawsuits from both Republicans (seeking to count fewer ballots) and Democrats (seeking to count more ballots).

A trove of documents related to Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski's Watergate investigation were unsealed today, including a criminal indictment approved by a grand jury against Richard Nixon on four criminal counts.

For the past four months, there was rife speculation that China's highest-paying actress had been banned from acting or had been detained by Chinese authorities because of tax evasion scandals.

Moths love lamps like humans love memes about moths loving lamps, apparently.

​On Friday, the EPA will enter the final stage of approval for a new rule that would allow manufacturers to use asbestos in new products, pending an EPA review. If implemented, this significant new use rule (SNUR) would reintroduce the use of asbestos into new building materials, reversing regulations that restricted "new uses" of asbestos.

On Sunday and Monday, President Trump dropped two tweets about California's wildfires that have left people scratching their heads.

As it always is with policing speech online, is this a slippery slope?

Wild stories about the odd and ordinary ways people interact can be some of the most fun and rewarding parts of the internet. That is not the case for #PlaneBae.

Divers from all over the world participated in a huge operation to rescue the boys, who became stranded by rising water after exploring the cave on June 23.

After hanging on through months of revelations about and investigations into his actions, Pruitt has finally resigned.

Justice Anthony Kennedy has long been known as a swing justice — although in his last season he sided with the court's conservative bloc on several high-profile cases — and replacing him with a more consistent conservative could transform American policy and society for decades to come.

If Twitter and the Washington Post op-ed section are to be believed, we're at some sort of tipping point for the way we conduct political debate here in the United States. The crucial word here is "civility."