How the Brazilian butt lift, one of the world’s most dangerous plastic surgery procedures, went mainstream.

When the Feds sought the death penalty for four African-American drug dealers in Baltimore, the accused found a defense in the unlikeliest of places: the legal theories of white supremacists.

Why your phone may (or may not) be killing you.

A Russian soldier vanishes in Ukraine.

A first-person account of the author’s time spent volunteering with a group of Burmese activists in Thailand, who turn out to be not Korean but in fact Karen, members of Burma’s persecuted ethnic minority. In the course of her time there, they show her videos of their risky forays across the border, and she shows them MySpace.

A veteran magazine journalist changes jobs at 57.

How a July 4th meal exposes the coronavirus risk for thousands of US food workers.

The battle for the old man with “snots running down his nose / Greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes.”

How do you start closing the gap between rich and poor? Convince the rich to do it themselves.

A New Orleans football legend reached the pinnacle of the sport, playing in three Super Bowls. Then he disappeared.

Following the United Nations’ war crimes detectives who tracked down a man who helped unleash the Rwandan genocide of 1994.

On the politics of North Carolina.

The body of a 38-year-old woman lay on her couch with the TV continuously running BBC for three years. Who was she, and why did it take three years for her to be discovered?

On the skyrocketing number of Americans on disability—14 million at last count, with payouts topping those for food stamps and welfare combined—and what it means for the U.S. economy.

Seventy years after three of the bloodiest days in U.S. history, the battle continues to bring the missing men home.

When computer science legend Jim Gray disappeared, his friends and colleagues – including Bill Gates and Larry Ellison – used every technological tool at their disposal to try to find him.

The birthing of a conspiracy theory that the record holder for oldest person, Jeanne Calment, was actually her daughter Yvonne, who had “stolen her deceased mother’s identity to avoid paying inheritance taxes,”

“The key differentiator of Super-Aggregators is that they have three-sided markets: users, content providers (which may include users!), and advertisers. Both content providers and advertisers want the user’s attention, and the latter are willing to pay for it.”

The grocer started communicating with Chinese counterparts in January and was running tabletop simulations a few weeks later. (But nothing prepared it for the rush on toilet paper.)