The Legend of A-N-N-A: Revisiting an American Town Where Black People Weren’t Welcome After Dark
The history of a sundown town.
The Big Bitcoin Heist
With its cheap geothermal energy and low crime rate, Iceland has become the world’s leading miner of digital currency. Then the crypto-crooks showed up.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Deficit"
A need for money causes interpersonal confusion.
The Happiness Ruse
How did feeling good become a matter of relentless, competitive work; a never-to-be-attained goal which makes us miserable?
The World According to Phoebe Waller-Bridge
A profile of the writer and star of Fleabag.
The Chameleon
The many lives of imposter Frédéric Bourdin.
Errol Morris is the director of The Thin Blue Line and The Fog of War. His latest film is American Dharma.
“I don’t make films because it makes sense to make them. Probably if I thought carefully about whether they made sense, I would stop immediately. I make them because I have a need to do it. I have a need to think about stuff. Writing and filmmaking for me is a form of thinking. It’s an opportunity to think about something. And I enjoy it. I don’t know what I would do without filmmaking.”
Thanks to Mailchimp, Pitt Writers and SAIC.
The Porch Pirate of Potrero Hill Can’t Believe It Came to This
When a longtime resident started stealing her neighbors’ Amazon packages, she entered a vortex of smart cameras, Nextdoor rants, and cellphone surveillance.
The Fisherman's Secret
A modern-day treasure hunt.
Total Recall
On LeBron James’s photographic memory.
How Does the Human Soul Survive Atrocity
After the horror of ISIS captivity, tens of thousands of Iraqis—many of them children—are caught up in a mental-health crisis unlike any in the world.
I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb
While searching for the person who grifted me in Chicago, I discovered just how easy it is for users of the short-term rental platform to get exploited.
Blood Gold in the Brazilian Rain Forest
Indigenous people and illegal miners are engaged in a fight that may help decide the future of the planet.
The Breakup Museum
Strangers want their past relationships witnessed, and other strangers come to Zagreb to witness them.
The Wild Ones
People said that women had no place in the Grand Canyon and would likely die trying to run the Colorado River. In 1938, two female scientists set out to prove them wrong.
A Filmmaker Bared His Soul. It Ruined His Life.
Caveh Zahedi’s abject, self-defeating, ethically questionable, maddeningly original approach to documentary.
The Wing: How an Exclusive Women's Club Sparked a Thousand Arguments
The Wing is a private members’ space for women that claims to be an ‘accelerator’ for feminist revolution in the US – and now it’s coming to the UK. But how progressive is it really?
The Company That Branded Your Millennial Life Is Pivoting To Burnout
When a marketing team found themselves burning out, they shifted their business focus to doing something about it. But if capitalism caused this problem, can capitalism fix it?
The Unbelievable Story of Threatin: Heavy Metal's Fyre Festival Moment
After faking his entire career and becoming a viral sensation, the heavy metal singer shares his side of the story.
The Wrong Goodbye
The patient lasted just minutes after being taken off life support. By then it was too late.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Take It"
A homeless teen stumbles upon a strange house party.
My Life As A Minor League Baseball Clown
I cannot burden my family with worry, because to be a burden worse than not being family at all. Like everyone else, I came to the ballpark to get away from something.
Ten Years Ago, I Called Out David Letterman. This Month, We Sat Down to Talk.
“This is the remarkable, true story of a rich white male celebrity who abused his power and then apologized for it.”
Midnight in the Garden of East Texas
A charming assistant funeral home director named Bernie Tiede murders a wealthy widow, keeps her in a freezer for months, finally gets caught, and still has the town's sympathy as his case goes to trial. The story that became Richard Linklater's Bernie.
Ashley Feinberg is a senior writer at Slate. She recently uncovered Mitt Romney's secret Twitter account.
“The whole thing about politics is that they are basically creating this character, this mask, and that is who they are supposed to be. That is who they try to project to the world. We know that it’s not really them but we have no access to what they actually are. This is the closest we get to seeing what they’re doing when they think no one is watching. … This is the most unfiltered access to what they’re actually thinking.”
