A Guitar's Life
An instrument’s impact on a handful of Texans.
The Disappeared
How the fatwa changed his life.
The Land That Time and Money Forgot
On New York City’s housing projects.
The Weatherman Is Not a Moron
How meteorologists are improving their predictive powers.
Jay-Z’s “99 Problems,” Verse 2: A Close Reading With Fourth Amendment Guidance for Cops and Perps
A law professor’s interpretation of the 2004 hit.
How Google Builds Its Maps—and What It Means for the Future of Everything
A look inside Google’s Ground Truth.
A Threat to Public Order
The impossible task of touring a tractor factory in post-Soviet Belarus.
Diary: In Brighton Beach
New York’s Russian community in Brooklyn.
The Devil and Jeffrey MacDonald
Did a handsome young Green Beret doctor kill his pregnant wife and two daughters? Or, as he claims, did a group of candle-carrying hippies carry out a vicious home invasion while chanting “Acid is groovy, kill the pigs”? A mystery that spanned three decades.
Kiss: The Pagan Beasties of Teenage Rock
On the road with the makeup-clad band.
The Last Happy Man
A profile of the oft-shirtless tight end Rob Gronkowski.
Wild Justice
Putting killer animals on trial.
The House That Hova Built
An essay on Jay-Z.
Down and Out in a Repurposed Troop Carrier
Writing a “stunt memoir” in the waterpark capital of the world.
Did Barack Obama Save Ohio?
The Buckeye State’s fortunes and the fight for credit.
Bill Clinton: Who Is This Guy?
The governor of Arkansas, profiled.
Can You Die From A Nightmare?
“It was creepy to wake up violently in the middle of the night. It was creepier when no one could tell me why it was happening.”
Paul Ford is a writer and programmer.
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Rotary Dial
An essay about phone dials and a response to the end of blogging.
Raging Bulls
How Wall Street got addicted to trading at the speed of light.
Interview: Katherine Boo
On the craft of reporting poverty.
My Life with Lance Armstrong
A profile of the cyclist by his former mechanic and assistant.
Confessions of a Black Mr. Mom
An essay on African-American fatherhood.
Searching For the Godmother of Crime
A profile of Griselda Blanco, aka the “Black Widow,” who pioneered the cocaine trade in New York and Miami.
Mizoram’s Wild Flower
In 1974, a pair of four-year-old cousins wandered into the jungle near India’s border with Myanmar. The boy was found five days later, temporarily incapable of speech. The girl was gone. For decades, stories echoed through villages of a “wild-looking woman,” sometimes striding beside a tiger. Thirty-eight years later, she returned.
