The taming of the political reporter.

Survivors of the real ‘Central Park Five’ attacker speak for the first time.

A week in the life of a family weathering the coronavirus.

How mitigation specialists are changing the application of the death penalty:

In Texas, the most prominent mitigation strategist is a lawyer named Danalynn Recer, the executive director of the Gulf Region Advocacy Center. Based in Houston, GRACE has represented defendants in death-penalty cases since 2002. “The idea was to improve the way capital trials were done in Texas, to start an office that would bring the best practices from other places and put them to work here,” Recer said recently. “This is not some unknowable thing. This is not curing cancer. We know how to do this. It is possible to persuade a jury to value someone’s life.”

“What happens when the thing that might save you is also the thing that might destroy the world?”

A group of scientists started tracking thousands of British children born during one cold March week in 1946. Those children are now 65 and the data generated through careful tracking of their life history has become extremely valuable.

Twenty-five years after her career-making album, Liz Phair is still writing songs first and foremost for herself.

From legal battles to securing vendors to getting the walls painted, every budget line is a struggle.

The intricate dance between highly organized ultras fan organizations, the teams they support, and the mafia for control of the center of curva and the lucrative ticket-touting opportunities that come with it.

“Norbert Grupe—a Nazi soldier’s son, boxer, professional wrestler, failed actor, criminal, and miserable human being who was never so happy as when he could make someone hate him—was once a man so beautiful that other men wanted to paint him.”

The rise and fall of the “most far-flung, most organized, and most brazen example of homosexual extortion in the nation’s history.”

The strange life of Boston Corbett, the soldier who killed John Wilkes Booth in 1865.

Traveling the highway that could make Brazil an economic powerhouse — at the expense of the Amazon.

How the government enabled the one percent to capitalize on the housing crisis.

A patriotic parade, a bloody brawl, and the origins of U.S. law enforcement’s war on the political left.

The 66-year-old became lost while hiking the Appalachian Trail. She survived for at least 16 days before crawling into her sleeping bag one last time, her journal sealed in a waterproof bag.

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

The legalizing of euthanasia is usually seen as a advancement in human rights. But is it appropriate for cases of non-terminal illness?

A profile of the director, written from the set of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.

The story that certified Gehry as a genius and the Guggenheim Bilbao as the building of the late 20th century.

A child’s hobby transforms slowly into a grown man’s obsessive project.

A French soccer star’s rise and fall from sports to cons to the Nazi Party.

A mother defends her family lineage against disruption from envious cousins.

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