On the history of Earth Day and the failure of the modern environmental movement.

The hunt for a secretive network of British men obsessed with accumulating and cataloguing the eggs of rare birds.

The afterlife of 486 frames of Kodachrome II 8mm film shot by Dallas clothing manufacturer Abraham Zapruder.

Our entire way of life depends upon the “cold chain,” the network of artificially refrigerated spaces that have reshaped the modern world.

Reverse engineering the details of a murder that took place in St. Louis on Christmas Night in 1895 from over a century of popular song.

The legacy of a secret Cold War program that tested chemical weapons on thousands of American soldiers.

Tales of mayhem on the set of The Canyons.

Learning of a plot against the life of the newly elected Lincoln, Alan Pinkerton decamps to Baltimore and infiltrates the conspiracy.

On the overstated effect of the Santa Ana winds on human behavior and the understated impact of climate change on LA’s seasons.

“In some ways, joining the military is an act of faith in one’s country—an act of faith that the country will use your life well.”

A profile of former Rutgers basketball coach Mike Rice, who was fired in April after a video of him berating players went viral.

The conspiracy theories surrounding the 1931 death of Hitler’s niece and object of affection.

On the constantly evolving definition of insider trading and the lingering question of how inside traders should be punished.

Eighty percent of North American teenagers are in the care of an orthodontist. On our obsession with perfect teeth.

He had the mind of a scholar, but he always insisted he didn’t want to be one.

In a remote corner of Romania, neighbors kill each other over tiny strips of land.

How a disgruntled group of University of Miami football fans got the head coach fired by flying insulting airplane banners high over Sun Life Stadium.

How Atlanta-born Davido, the son of a wealthy Nigerian businessman, hopes to break the international market with his brand of Nigerian pop.

Inside the world of special operations weather technicians, “the Department of Defense’s only commando forecasters.”

David Carr’s advice for the 2014 graduating class at the UC Berkeley School of Journalism.

A man’s love of pigeons leads him to build a Ponzi scheme out of birds.

Typee, the most popular book Melville published in his lifetime, was his memoir of Polynesia. Most of it was probably made up.

A profile of Jim Henson before the release of the first Muppet movie.

An artifact from the height of the uproar:

Behind the tawdriest of headlines, there's a woman I wouldn't mind bringing home to mom.

The story of former Vikings linebacker Fred McNeill and the lasting impact of his concussions.