The President received at least $413 million in today’s dollars from his father’s real estate empire, much of it through tax dodges in the 1990s.

While many trans athletes have become political lightning rods, nonbinary people like Layshia Clarendon are left out of the conversation. In a sex-segregated sports world, where do they fit in?

Tracking down 40-odd members of the British band.

It's a Tuesday morning in December, and I'm ringing people called Brown in Rotherham. "Hello," I begin again. "I'm trying to trace Jonnie Brown who used to play in the Fall. He came from Rotherham and I wondered if you might be a relative." "The Who?" asks the latest Mr Brown. "No. The Fall - the band from Salford. He played bass for three weeks in 1978." "Is this some kind of joke?"

Georgia and Patterson Inman, 15-year-old twins, are the only living heirs to the $1 billion Duke tobacco fortune. They are also emotional wrecks, tortured by a hellacious childhood in which they were raised by drug addicts and left to fend for themselves in mansions across the country.

For at least 130 years, cabbies in London have been taking what many believe is the hardest test in the world: through a series of oral exams that takes four years to complete, they must prove that know every one of the city’s 25,000 streets, every business and every landmark.

“I was in the visiting clubhouse waiting to interview one of the Oakland A’s this year when one of the players called, ‘Here, pussy’—as though he were calling a cat. But of course, he hadn’t lost Fluffy; he’d found a woman in his locker room.”

Noorullah Aminya was once a valuable ally to the American military. Then, with the Taliban going after his family, he attempted to defect and spent three years in federal detention. To be granted asylum, he needed to convince a judge that the Taliban rule Afghanistan in full. Which would mean America has lost the war.

Murder in the Juarez Valley:

A few weeks after Saul Reyes and his family fled Mexico, I drove to an immigrant shelter in downtown El Paso to see him. As the former city secretary of Guadalupe, Saul had once been in charge of recording the births and deaths of everyone in his hometown. He’d taken it upon himself now to collect every single name of those who had died or disappeared in Guadalupe since the killing began in 2008. Through media reports and meetings with the many valley exiles now living in Texas, Saul had compiled a list of the town’s dead and disappeared. Showing me the book, he turned page after page of names. So far he had counted 180 dead, 26 disappeared, and eight unknown bodies dumped in his small town of 3,000 people. “There are a lot more, but these are the ones I’ve been able to collect,” he said. In his careful, spidery script, he had written on one page the names of his six family members.

A profoundly neglected 6-year-old gets a new home.

Reconsidering Virginia Woolf’s novel, Orlando.

At home, Arkansas’s favorite son can do no wrong.

On Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, screenwriters.

Is a Marine responsible for a series of violent attacks against women?

How a couple made millions on uncanny forgeries.

The Syrian civil war crosses into Lebanon.

Searching for a mysterious whirpool on an obscure map.

An asshole learns to sing.

The brief life and complicated death of Tommy Lasorda’s gay son.

On decorated sniper Chris Kyle and the troubled young veteran who took his life.

The rock critic confronts his favorite musician.

A nation strips 210,000 of citizenship and sets the stage for mass deportations.

A reckless billion-dollar industry that occasionally kills.

Middle class apps struggle to survive.

Investigating the murder of a Costa Rican conservationist.

How “Do What You Love” devalues actual work.