The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League did everything it could to keep lesbians off the diamond. Seventy-five years later, its gay stars are finally opening up.

Rédoine Faïd loved the movies, and his greatest crimes were laced with tributes: to Point Break, Heat, and Reservoir Dogs. When he landed in a maximum-security prison, cinema provided inspiration once again.

Thirty years ago, the biggest celebrities on earth opened a chain restaurant. For a few years, it was the hottest ticket in town. Then it went bankrupt. Twice.

It seemed like an easy crime to stop: protected Indonesian rainforest, cut for coffee farms. But a globalized economy can undermine even the best-laid plans.

A series of one-sided international love letters.

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Engineer and adventurer Richard Jenkins has made oceangoing robots that could revolutionize fishing, drilling, and environmental science. His aim: a thousand of them.

One year after a 14-year-old basketball player was killed by a stray bullet on a playground court in Queens, his friends and family still don’t have answers—only enduring anguish and a familiar feeling of grief.

The story of the 1977 Revolt at Cincinnati, and the men who changed the course of the NRA forever.

“It seemed like everyone gets raped and assaulted and no one does anything about it; it’s like a big rape cult.”

“If we’re sitting here bored, getting high and we got guns around, it ain’t nothing else to do.”

On a parent’s relationship with unused embryos.

Meet Ben Discoe, a programmer who did it from October 2011 to November 2012.

She was an overnight YouTube success. Then she tried to make a TV show.

An interview with Jimmy Page on nostalgia, Robert Plant, and why he would only publish an autobiography after he dies.

Private planes, caviar lunches and Little League.

Hipsters vs. Hasids in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. A skirmish over a bike lane becomes a battle for a neighborhood.

Foreign policy as architecture; how embassies went from lavish social hubs to reinforced strongholds.

“In 2000, Zimbabwe’s dictator began kicking white farmers off their land. One man decided to stay.”

Deaf, mute and undocumented, he was charged 12 years ago with a capital crime and has been in legal limbo ever since.

Her fiction has imagined societies riddled with misogyny, oppression, and environmental havoc. These visions now feel all too real.

What it feels like to get hit by a major league fastball.

In El Salvador, more and more young women are choosing—or being forced into—gang life.

How extreme weather, which displaced more than a million people last year, could reshape America.

How Jerry Lee Lewis got away with murdering 25-year-old Shawn Michelle Stevens, his fifth wife.

How Craig Carton, a morning host on WFAN, ended up running a Ponzi scheme.