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“Befriending a rock star isn’t necessarily as cool as you’d think—particularly when tragedy happens.”

Increasingly worn down by the pandemic, a dad goes to a baseball game.

The rise and ruin of Couchsurfing.com.

Fighting the romanticism of owning a home in one of the nation’s most competitive housing markets.

Child custody, colonization, and the choices mother make

How India disenfranchises Muslims.

Amid the complex web of international trade, proving the authenticity of a product can be near-impossible. But one company is taking the search to the atomic level.

James Allen is serving three life sentences for murder. No one ever said he killed anyone.

When she was a 15-year-old runaway, the writer was nearly killed by a truck driver. Twenty-seven years later, she investigates whether her attacker was truck stop serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades, who often kept his victims chained in the back of his truck for weeks before killing and dumping them.

The singer-songwriter tries to hold down an uncertain moment.

A shoot-out at a Big Bend ranch captured the nation’s attention: first as an alleged ambush by undocumented migrants, then as a fear-mongering hoax. The real story is much more mysterious.

Shared parenting is usually better for children—but the model fails for many women forced to co-parent with their abusers.

Can a cowboy become the greatest polo player of all time?

During the brief moment when the pandemic was receding and we could be together again, all we wanted to do was move our bodies.

Peter Thiel gamed Silicon Valley, the IRS, and Donald Trump.

The once-utopian accommodations site, now headed by an alum of surveillance-analytics firm Palantir, has gone back on its always-free ethos.

Three years ago, college football was rocked by a domestic violence scandal that ended with Ohio State firing assistant coach Zach Smith and suspending head coach Urban Meyer. Both men have since reinvented their images and careers. But what about Courtney Smith, the woman who said she had been abused for years by Smith while he coached at Ohio State? This is her story.

He became a guru in the self-optimization scene, hobnobbing with the likes of Elon Musk. But will anyone listen to his warnings about the movement that brought him renown?

A profile of the comedian, who died Tuesday.

A profile of Christopher Soghoian whose “productions follow a similar pattern, a series of orchestrated events that lead to the public shaming of a large entity—Google, Facebook, the federal government—over transgressions that the 30-year-old technologist sees as unacceptable violations of privacy.”

Last year, three cryptocurrency enthusiasts bought a cruise ship. They named it the Satoshi, and dreamed of starting a floating libertarian utopia. It didn’t work out

Exploited by apps. Attacked by thieves. Unprotected by cops. 65,000 strong, with only themselves to count on.

The Atlanta Braves-New York Mets game from Sept. 21, 2001, remains a historic moment of grief, mourning, and hope after 9/11.