The uneasy dance of the architecture critic, the big-name architect, the towering new building, and the city beneath it.

Tales of mayhem on the set of The Canyons.

The post-election life of the woman who would have been president.

On former CIA agent John T. Downey, who spent more than 20 years in China as the longest held American captive of war.

A profile of Jon Stewart, who’s now run The Daily Show for more than a decade.

A profile of the New York Times White House correspondent.

You’re not supposed to just vanish at Vortex Spring. Dive too deep and you might not make it back to the surface, but a search party will eventually find your body. Nobody has found Ben McDaniel yet.

As the summer months stretched into fall, Justin Edwards would sometimes bump into the man wanted for his attempted murder.

Decades after the company tried to tackle sexual misconduct at two Chicago plants, harassment and assault continues.

For decades, the lead actor at an acclaimed storefront Chicago theater beat, groped, and choked his female co-stars in front of audiences, while manipulating them into coercive relationships offstage.

A profile of Anita Sarkeesian, who has recieved death threats as she exposes misogyny in the $25 billion video game industry.

A team of researchers at Columbia believe that small changes to college life could make campuses safer.

On living without memories.

The FBI couldn’t find Ryan Eugene Mullen. Neither could a trio of private investigators. Only Michelle Gomez knew where to look.

On the dangerous state of U.K. banks—“an existential threat to British democracy, a more serious one than terrorism, either external or internal”—and how it can be fixed.

Music writer Mark Fisher (who died this week) on the decline of Michael Jackson.

A profile of Steve Bannon — former naval officer and Goldman Sachs banker, executive chairman of Breitbart News, founding chairman of the Government Accountability Institute, and, as of yesterday, Donald Trump’s chief White House strategist.

Libor, ISDAfix, and how the big banks do business.

Inside the worst U.S. maritime disaster in decades.

Albuquerque has one of the highest rates in the country of fatal shootings by police, and no officer has been indicted.

A day in the life of Mount Eerie’s Phil Elverum, in the wake of the sudden death of his wife when their daughter was four months old.

A profile of Jenny Offill, whose latest novel addresses climate collapse.

A holiday tradition in the Netherlands involving blackface has sparked a debate about race, the legacy of slavery, and the vestiges of colonialism.

The rise and murderous fall of the Harkey family, the scions of a pecan dynasty.

Riding through Detroit with the author of The Turner House.