Stare at the game long enough and the distance between everything—players, league, game, court, self, other—begins to collapse. Everything becomes a metaphor for everything else, the league and your life each generating infinite layers of meaning for the other.
Hundreds of thousands of single-family homes are now in the hands of giant companies—squeezing renters for revenue and putting the American dream even further out of reach.
Mara Hvistendahl is a freelance reporter and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her first book, Unnatural Selection. Her new book is The Scientist and the Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage.
“In times of tension, Cold War historians believe that there’s this mirroring that goes on, that we start to behave like the enemy, and that that is the big risk. And I feel like that’s the moment we’re in now.”
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A Kickstarter for a Kevlar backpack goes awry leading to a federal investigation.
The reckonings of one of the South’s white suburban women, whose loyalty is key to whether Trump is reelected.
How Post Malone became pop’s king of heartbreak.
People used to think the crowdsourced encyclopedia represented all that was wrong with the web. Now it’s a beacon of so much that’s right.
Stories of African Americans playing in a city that has struggled with racism
How Rebekah Neumann’s search For enlightenment fueled WeWork’s collapse.
In the wake of a vicious murder, the state of Oregon wrestles with what went wrong in its mental health system.
Apocalypse camp at the dawn of the Great Extinction.
From legal battles to securing vendors to getting the walls painted, every budget line is a struggle.
Mountain athletes face death and grief more often than most of us. One therapist thinks he can help.
Medical examiners provide crucial insights into public health and safety. What happens when we don’t have enough of them?
A telekinetic teenager became a convicted killer. Can a group of strangers prove that Christina Boyer is really a victim of injustice?
A small Georgia town, a prophecy about Donald Trump, and the story of how a miracle fell apart.
Two men were sent to prison for killing a French tourist in Manhattan in 1987. Can they overturn their convictions?
Investigating one of the deadliest maritime disasters in U.S. history.
A new apartment; exercises in surrealism.
Hannah Dreier is a reporter at The Washington Post and the winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.
“You can’t come up with a good story idea in the office. I’ve never had a good idea that I just came up with out of thin air. It always comes from being on the ground.”
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“You’re preying on someone’s hopes, you’re preying on someone’s dreams. You’re preying on a particularly vulnerable population who all have artistic sensibilities.”
Menhaz Zaman was always a good boy: obedient, respectful and studious. Or that’s what everyone thought, until one night last summer, when he confessed to slaughtering his entire family with a crowbar
A profile of Brooks Koepka.
How Allstate’s secret auto insurance algorithm squeezes big spenders.
The rise and fall of a Bitcoin mining scheme that was “too big to fail.”
