The empty promises and empty buildings of Foxconn’s Wisconsin debacle.

The carpenter behind some of New York’s most elaborate—and expensive—homes

A profile of the actor.

A portrait of Ben Todd, a DIY champion of the emerging music scene in Nashville.

What the neighborhood of Higher Blackley in Manchester says about “one of the least understood and most discriminated-against groups in society.”

The lonely death of a godfather of the conspiracy theory movement.

The story of a naïve fisherman, a boat headed for Spain and 1.5 tons of cocaine.

How a group of serial entrepreneurs with an already impressive string of hits changed the way the world talks.

The Granite Mountain Hotshots, an outfit of professional wildland firefighters, had 20 members. On June 30, 19 of them lost their lives.

The rise and fall of Colorado’s newly-legal cash crop.

A profile of driver A.J. Foyt on the eve of what was supposed to be his final Indy 500.

Part one of W.T. Snead’s Victorian-era investigation into child prostitution.

The history of a powerful and violent secret society in the islands of southern Chile.

The beginnings of the best-selling video game, from a chapter of David Kushner’s new book on the subject.

A critique of Davis Guggenheim’s Waiting for ‘Superman’.

On the group of friends who came to rule the bizarre, decreasingly lucrative world of Internet porn.

“Nearly half of Americans would have trouble finding $400 to pay for an emergency. I’m one of them.”

The stories of women who “are operating at unprecedented levels on every floor of CIA headquarters and throughout its far-flung global outposts.”

On black bodies in the age of the Charleston shootings.

The history of the City of London Corporation, a “prehistoric monster which had mysteriously survived into the modern world.”

A pre-eminent expert on large carnivores runs afoul of the enemies of the wolf.

What happened to the group of bright college students who fell under the sway of a classmate’s father?

On the death of a young reporter named Christopher Allen and the state of conflict journalism.

The island of Borneo is the only home of the proboscis monkey, an endangered primate that is surprisingly resilient.

The remarkable stories of the nine other women in the Harvard Law class of ‘59.