Knives Outback
A man is presumed murdered. In this town of 12, everyone is a possible suspect.
The Real C.E.O. of “Succession”
How the writer Jesse Armstrong keeps the billionaire Roy family trapped in its gilded cage.
On Self-Respect
An essay on understanding our character, worth, and limits.
The Queen of Delicacies
On peaches.
At Lake Adelle, the Dead, the Missing and Those Left Behind
On the murder at Lake Adelle.
Eating the Whale
There is an alternate definition for meat, one that simply means the thing inside of the thing—i.e., the meat of a coconut or the meat of a problem. My inquiry aimed to understand the living, the dead, and the part in the middle as well, the thing inside of the thing. I’m trying to tell you why I had finally resolved to taste whale.
A People’s History of Black Twitter
An oral history of one of the most influential communities on the internet.
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Part I: Coming Together (2000-2012)
From #UKnowUrBlackWhen to #BlackLivesMatter, how a loose online network became a pop culture juggernaut, an engine of social justice, and a lens into the future.
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Part II: Rising Up (2012–2016)
No longer just an online movement, Black Twitter takes to the streets—and finds its voice.
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Part III: Getting Through (2016-present)
Joy and pain, harmony and discord, organization and chaos—there’s no single way to define Black Twitter’s complex, ongoing legacy.
Owen Wilson Is Doing Great, Thanks
A profile of the actor.
Behind the Fight to Save the Gulf’s Spectacular Coral Reefs
About 100 miles from Galveston, Flower Garden Banks is home to some of the healthiest coral communities in the world. Some unlikely allies came together to help expand protections, but will it be enough?
Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang are reporters for the New York Times. They are coauthors of An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination.
“There are two types of reporters. There are reporters who date and reporters who marry. I think both Cecilia and I are reporters who marry our sources and by that I mean they are lifelong sources. It’s not a relationship that you build quickly. It’s one where you have to really let them get to know you as a journalist, show them that you are always going to be honest and do what you say and protect their anonymity and that you’re not biased. I think some reporters make mistakes in that they try to curry favor with sources by writing things they think the sources will like and I think sources actually respect you more when you show them: no I am accurate and I am honest and I am objective and I’m actually going to check what you tell me so that I know it’s true and you know I am doing my homework on everything.”
Lost at Sea
Their boat gone, they spent five days in the Atlantic Ocean without food or water, surrounded by sharks.
Do These 4,000 Federal Inmates Belong Behind Bars?
Covid allowed Raquel Esquivel and 4,500 others to be released from overcrowded federal prisons. So why is she back behind bars?
The Spine Collector
For years, a mysterious figure has been stealing books before their release. Is it espionage? Revenge? Or a complete waste of time?
The Runaway General
“Stanley McChrystal, Obama’s top commander in Afghanistan, has seized control of the war by never taking his eye off the real enemy: The wimps in the White House.”
The Strange Summer Land Rush in Peoria’s Dying South End
Buyers from all over America—some of whom had never heard of the Illinois town—came searching for wealth amid the Rust Belt ruins.
Why China’s Crypto Cowboys Are Fleeing to Texas
“The cowboy hats, target practice, and barbecue brisket were just a bonus. They were really there for the deregulated electrical grid.”
Mike White Accepts the Criticism
A spoiler-filled interview with the creator of The White Lotus.
My Mustache, My Self
“A quarantine facial-hair experiment led me to a deep consideration of my Blackness.”
Inside the Fury and Fantasy of Donald Trump’s Florida
Roger Stone, Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, Ben Shapiro—they’ve all made their way to the Sunshine State, fueling and profiting from a tabloid culture that turns politics into spectacle, arguably Florida’s greatest export.
Underworld
Five hundred feet below ground with Ohio coal miners.
I followed them underground, home, to church, to the strip club where they drink and gossip and taunt and jab and worry about one another. I listened while they worried about Smitty, the loner of the group, who had just ordered himself a mail-order woman.
Finding a Way Back from Suicide
A journey of recovery through electroconvulsive therapy.
How the Pandemic Now Ends
Cases of COVID-19 are rising fast. Vaccine uptake has plateaued. The pandemic will be over one day—but the way there is different now.
Ghosts
Here I should conjure my sister for you. Here I should describe her, so that you feel her absence as I do—so that you’re made ghostly by it, too. But, though I’m a writer, I’ve never been able to conjure her.
The Case of the Vanishing Jungle
It seemed like an easy crime to stop: protected Indonesian rainforest, cut for coffee farms. But a globalized economy can undermine even the best-laid plans.
A Dog’s Inner Life: What a Robot Pet Taught Me About Consciousness
Today, artificial intelligence and information technologies have absorbed many of the questions that were once taken up by theologians and philosophers: the mind’s relationship to the body, the question of free will, the possibility of immortality.
