“The concussion that led Borland to retire came on a routine play, and that’s precisely his point.”

A retired fighter worries that he has all the symptoms of CTE.

Seeking justice with the Trans Doe Task Force.

An argument for ordering in, among other things.

How a traveling medical technician managed to steal narcotics from hospitals, infecting at least 45 people with hepatitis C in the process.

An oral history of the day oil prices went below zero for the first time in trading history.

Food. Phone calls. Medical care. Transport. Even in public prisons, “piecemeal privatization” is transforming incarceration in America.

Carol, who was out for a walk one afternoon, saw me marching around and shouted across the street: “YOU SURE WANT TO FIND THAT CAT!”

“YES,” I yelled back. “I SURE DO.”

A profile of Larry King at the height of his fame and on the heels of his sixth divorce.

On the service’s multiple origin stories.

The history of the City of London Corporation, a “prehistoric monster which had mysteriously survived into the modern world.”

A murder case in Mississippi catches the eye of amateur sleuths on Facebook, who proceed to harass everyone involved in the case.

A trip to Malheur Refuge.

On the enduring appeal of Olive Garden.

American anti-trafficking groups often make impossible-to-verify claims. Now, they’re doing it in the aftermath of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The city is beating the pandemic. Can it also recover from decades of division and neglect?

The opioid’s potency has transformed the global trafficking—and policing—of narcotics.

On conspiracy theories in sports, from the ‘85 NBA draft lottery to Michael Phelps’ gold medal performance in the 100-meter butterfly.

“It was a clusterfuck of clusterfucks.”

To make sense of the Special Counsel, you have to revisit some of the bloodiest battles of Vietnam.

A profile of Valeria Lukyanova, otherwise known as the “Human Barbie.”

The unintended consequences of cost cutting corporate decisions on display at a Tulsa Wal-Mart Supercenter.

Not all that long ago, as the editor in chief of Gawker.com, Daulerio was among the most influential and feared figures in media. Now the forty-two-year-old is unemployed, his bank has frozen his life savings of $1,500, and a $1,200-per-month one-bedroom is all he can afford. He's renting here, he says, to be near the counselors and support network he has come to rely on lately.

How a Canadian used a Mohawk reservation’s lakes to smuggle tons of marijuana to stash houses in Brooklyn and Staten Island, resulting in nearly a billion in profits, which he laundered through the Sinaloa Cartel.

When an 11-year-old Black girl in Jim Crow America discovers a seemingly worthless plot of land she has inherited is worth millions, everything in her life changes—and the walls begin to close in.