Policing Tottenham Hotspur fans.

“In the recent history of American music, there’s no figure parallel to Lehrer in his effortless ascent to fame, his trajectory into the heart of the culture — and then his quiet, amiable, inexplicable departure.”

How Hollywood falls for actresses who “act like a dude but look like a supermodel” – and then changes its mind.

Over the course of 25 years, he’s repeatedly toyed with the idea of running for president and now, maybe, governor of New York. With all but his closest apostles finally tired of the charade, even the Donald himself has to ask, what’s the point? On the plane and by the pool with the man who will not be king.

The murder of a rapper amid the rise of Greece’s fascist party.

Finding personal stories buried deep in the YouTube comments.

“After college, as my friends left Michigan for better opportunities, I was determined to help fix this broken, chaotic city by building my own home in the middle of it. I was 23 years old.”

An exploited celebrity’s long journey home.

In the ’90s, a gynecologist named Gao Yaojie exposed an AIDS epidemic in rural China and the ensuing government cover-up. Forced to leave, she’s now 85 and living alone in New York.

On the importance of the jingle business.

A family investigates.

Meet Alan Chambers, former leader of Exodus International–a “pray the gay away” ministry.

How MSG became “perhaps the most infamously misunderstood and maligned three letters in the history of food.”

The inquiry into a nurse’s suicide after she was on the receiving end of a crank call.

Cycles of boom and bust in the drilling town of Williston, N.D., as seen from the perspective of an itinerant dancer filling one of three slots at the only strip club in town, Whispers.

When Manny Ramirez played half a season for the E-DA Rhinos.

“Before Glenn Greenwald was the journalist who broke and defended the most important story of 2013, he was many other things: an underage South Florida politician, a lawyer at a high-powered corporate firm, Kips Bay’s most combative tenant, and even the legal arm of his business partner’s gay porn distribution company.”

A eulogy for the journalist.

An Iraq War veteran assuages his PTSD with bank heists.

The story behind the spectacle.

A profile of the Van Halen frontman.

Living with – and dying because of – hyperacusis, a condition that grossly intensifies hearing.

A generation that has seen inestimable violence comes of age in Juarez.

On the case of young Joseph Hall, who was convicted last month of murdering his dad.

A “crude table-tennis arcade game” called Pong and the birth of the video game industry.