Fiona Apple on How She Broke Free and Made the Album of the Year
A months-long interview with the singer-songwriter.
'When Your Work Is Too Much and Exploitative, What Happens?'
Uber made big promises in Kenya. Drivers say it’s ruined their lives.
The Man Who Found Forrest Fenn's Treasure
A 32-year-old medical student finally goes on the record.
Seeing at the Speed of Sound
The writer, deaf since birth, on the intricacies of reading lips.
In Too Deep
Did an affair with a Russian agent push Overstock’s Patrick Byrne too far?
Interpreting America at the Minsk Book Fair
In Belarus, a travel writer wrestles with his role.
False Witness
In St. Louis, a former rival could end up springing Felix Key from a 28 year sentence.
Tony Hsieh’s American Tragedy: The Self-Destructive Last Months Of The Zappos Visionary
When the business icon died in a fire last week, questions abounded. The answers seem rooted in a Covid-period spiral, where he turned to drugs and shunned old friends.
It Wasn’t the First Time the NYPD Killed Someone in Crisis. For Kawaski Trawick, It Only Took 112 Seconds.
Trawick was alone in his apartment when an officer pushed open the door. He was holding a bread knife and a stick. “Why are you in my home?” he asked. He never got an answer.
The Inside Story of Michigan’s Fake Voter Fraud Scandal
How a state that was never in doubt became a “national embarrassment.”
Death at Freedom Square
How could the coronavirus overwhelm a Florida nursing home so quickly?
Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong
Years from now, we will look back in horror at the counterproductive ways we addressed the obesity epidemic and the barbaric ways we treated fat people—long after we knew there was a better path.
The Social Life of Forests
A growing body of research suggests that trees can communicate and cooperate in the wild.
What My Dad Gave His Shop
For 45 years, , Harmony Audio Video, has been my dad’s life: the reason he left home early every day, the reason he was chronically late to pick me up from school, the reason he didn’t take a single vacation for 25 years.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Soil"
A hotel serves as a site for discreet abortions.
The Art of Building the Impossible
The carpenter behind some of New York’s most elaborate—and expensive—homes
The Mystery of the Gatwick Drone
A drone sighting caused the airport to close for two days in 2018, but despite a lengthy police investigation, no culprit was ever found. So what exactly did people see in the sky?
Melissa del Bosque is an investigative journalist covering the U.S.-Mexico border.
“What I really want people to know is the context within which this traumatic event is happening. It doesn’t have to happen. It’s happening because certain people made certain decisions. Or they made a decision to do nothing. … There are laws, there are policies on the books that are either being ignored or could be changed.”
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When One Parent Leaves a Hasidic Community, What Happens to the Kids?
The irreconcilable differences between Orthodoxy and secularism increasingly end up in court.
Gaétan Dugas and the 'AIDS Mary' Myth
The Canadian scapegoat of the AIDS epidemic.
Castles in the Sky
A found diary holds a love story—and a mystery.
India’s Leading Documentary Filmmaker Has a Warning
Anand Patwardhan spent decades tracking the rise of Hindu nationalism. And now, under an increasingly repressive government, he holds his screenings in secret.
The Bubble of a Dream
On trying, and failing, to qualify for the USA Olympic Marathon Trials.
How One of the Reddest States Became the Nation’s Hottest Weed Market
Welcome to Toke-la-homa.
The Reigning Queen of Pandemic Yoga
A profile of YouTube yogi Adriene Mishler
