“A legend is growing in Nepal, where people say a meditating boy hasn’t eaten or drunk in seven months. He barely moves, just sits under a tree, still as a stone. It’s impossible, some say. Is it a miracle? A hoax? Let’s find out.”

How the fashion industry collapsed.

How the FBI manufactures phony crimes to arrest so-called terrorists.

A profile of the author at 84.

“If you could put your own crew together and rob the biggest drug dealer you know, who would that drug dealer be?”

“I decided that if he would not tell us his story, then I would.”

For the first time, data scientists have modeled how climate refugees might move across international borders. This is what they found.

Five hundred feet below ground with Ohio coal miners.

Sounding a warning on pesticides.

The lives of elevators.

When a car careened onto a baseball field in Sanford, Maine, during a Babe Ruth game in 2018, it set in motion a true-crime mystery 50 years in the making.

The soul of an octopus.

Reckoning with the American flag.

In a Los Angeles suburb where schools and parents faltered, the American Dream was replaced by drugs, neo-Nazism, and despair.

Banned in Russia and cut by Condé Nast from the GQ website, this story (presented in full) details the intrigue behind the Moscow apartment bombings, blamed on Chechens, that allowed Putin to rapidly ascend to power.

In 1980, a bankrupt gambler came up with a plan to get his money back. He built an incredibly complex bomb, one that was impossible to defuse and that only he knew how to move, and snuck it into a Lake Tahoe casino with an extortion note demanding $3 million. Part of the plan worked. Part of it did not.

Inside an IRL cult built on Facebook memes and semen-drinking.

A prostitution and sex trafficking ring operated on the outskirts of a U.S. Navy base in Bahrain and may have involved 15% of the sailors stationed there.

Our founding ideals of liberty and equality were false when they were written. For generations, black Americans have fought to make them true.

The story of the loneliest whale in the world.

“Peril is generational for black people in America—and incarceration is our current mechanism for ensuring that the peril continues.”

A non-fiction comic on the evolution of military and civilian style amid the ‘forever war.’

Deputy Treasury Secretary Justin Muzinich has an increasingly prominent role. He still has ties to his family’s investment firm, which is a major beneficiary of the Treasury’s bailout actions.

Open source materials suggest that, for now, the apocalyptic, anti-government politics of the “Boogaloo Bois” are not monolithically racist/neo-Nazi. As we have observed, some members rail against police shootings of African Americans, and praise black nationalist self defense groups.

But the materials also demonstrate that however irony-drenched it may appear to be, this is a movement actively preparing for armed confrontation with law enforcement, and anyone else who would restrict their expansive understanding of the right to bear arms. In a divided, destabilized post-coronavirus landscape, they could well contribute to widespread violence in the streets of American cities.

“Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.”