Conservationists saw the 6-year-old brown bear as a symbol of hope. Villagers saw him as a menace. Then he turned up dead.

Two men with the same name. A murder, a manhunt, and a chilling question: Did a Florida court hand down a life sentence because of a mistaken identity?

The antagonistic partnership that produced Sunset Boulevard.

On being the lone male student at a women’s college.

On why we need to stop questioning Wikipedia and start thinking about what comes next.

Why do all those rugged coastlines, moors and stone buildings make England seem haunted?

With The BFG, the filmmaker tackles childhood’s possibilities and terrors once again.

What the Fresh Air host has learned after 13,000 interviews.

On PredictIt, a site that allows you to bet on politics, and the people who are getting rich off it.

The people who run these platforms have to make decisions about the greater good—whether they want to or not.

After thousands of birds vanished overnight from a Florida refuge, conspiracy theories bloomed.

A gender studies professor, diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, decides to take control of her death.

Evidence of a decades-old hotel trist with a teenage intern costs a beloved Chicago columnist his job - and his identity.

Some of unit’s clients stifle opposition, stoke extremism.

After Moneyball became a best-seller, Michael Lewis learned that many of the ideas it presented to the general public had actually been introduced decades earlier by a pair of Israeli psychologists.

Adapted from The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds.

The school founded by evangelist Jerry Falwell ignored reports of rape and threatened to punish accusers for breaking its moral code, say former students. An official who says he was fired for raising concerns calls it a “conspiracy of silence.”

On the legal history of LSD in America and a researcher who never gave up on the drug’s promise.

Slumdog Millionaire, the 2008 Mumbai attacks, and the arrival of “New India” in the American imagination.

How the “biggest grow op willing to publish its address” could make Canada an international pioneer in the legalization and commercialization of weed.

What sex workers think about legalizing sex work.

“If I’m writing a thing based on something that happened, it often starts to become fun for me when I see there’s an opportunity to make myself look even more of a jerk than I am in real life.”

A Q&A:

My mother was called to school frequently because I was yelling out things in class, quips in class, and because I would hand in compositions that they thought were in poor taste, or too sexual. Many, many times she was called to school.

On the late singer Judee Sill, the virtual cemetery site Find a Grave, and memorials in the age of the Twitter RIP.

On the labor conditions behind branches of NYU, the Louvre, and the Guggenheim in Abu Dhabi.