Rodrigo Rosenberg, a highly respected corporate attorney in Guatemala, began, in the spring of 2009, to prophesy his own murder. The unraveling of a political conspiracy.

An essay on understanding our character, worth, and limits.

A profile of the designer, who died on February 19, 2019.

On the 1998 crash of Swissair Fight 111 into the sea off a small Nova Scotia fishing village.

In 2015, my friend and I went to Disney World. Three years later, she went on a solo trip to prison.

On the grief that comes with losing livestock.

An investigation into the crash of the USS Fitzgerald.

When New Yorkers lived knee-deep in trash.

The writer on his father’s religious devotion to personal style. Among the maxims: “the turtleneck is the most flattering thing a man can wear”; “there is nothing like a fresh burn”; and “always wear white to the face.”

The life of Robert Earl Hughes, who at more than 1,000 lbs. was named largest man on earth by the Guinness Book of World Records.

From Driving Miss Daisy to Green Book.

Not knowing what these movies were “about” didn’t mean it wasn’t clear what they were about. They symbolize a style of American storytelling in which the wheels of interracial friendship are greased by employment, in which prolonged exposure to the black half of the duo enhances the humanity of his white, frequently racist counterpart. All the optimism of racial progress — from desegregation to integration to equality to something like true companionship — is stipulated by terms of service.

How two Jewish American political consultants helped create the world’s largest anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.

On the moral responsibility to break unjust laws.

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

Peggy Jo Tallas spent most of her adult life doing two things: taking care of her ailing mother and robbing bank after bank dressed as a pudgy, bearded cowboy.

On surfer girls in Maui; the story that led to the film Blue Crush.

When Sonia Vallabh lost her mother to a rare disease, then was diagnosed with it herself, she and her husband set out to find a cure.

The excerpts from a diary of an anonymous Russian special-forces officer who served twenty tours of duty in Chechnya during the Second Chechen War (1999-2009).

The story of a bank robber who risked his life to put a killer on death row.

The agonies of being overweight—or running a diet company—in a culture that likes to pretend it only cares about health, not size.

There was no doubt: Jeremy Gross had brutally murdered a convenience store clerk. All that was left to decide was his punishment. Death or life without parole? The story of a capital murder trial, as seen from the jury box.

Five hundred feet below ground with Ohio coal miners.

Alex drew his school’s mascot during class.Then he was suspended, arrested and deported. How high schools have embraced the Trump administration’s crackdown on MS-13 and destroyed immigrant students’ American dreams.

A profile of Marlon Brando, 33, holed up in a hotel suite in Kyoto where he was filming Sayonara.