A man living in the Boston suburbs learns he could be one of the only survivors of a 1982 massacre in Guatemala.

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

The longtime editor of the London Review of Books on editing, the “fussed” people on Twitter, and “preferential treament” for women.

Finding the thread of depression in the personal history of a friend’s suicide.

[Part 1 of 2] The story behind this spring’s spate of retributive murders in Southwest D.C.

In 2007, Harrah’s made 5.6% of its total Las Vegas revenue off of a single person: Terrance Watanabe.

Inside Rebecca West’s vast Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, an eerily timeless travelogue of the Balkans written on the eve of WWI.

A writer struggles to defend his arbor vitae trees from a pack of hungry deer—“an episode of great vexation and buffoonery.”

Taibbi on the Tea Party. “After lengthy study of the phenomenon, I’ve concluded that the whole miserable narrative boils down to one stark fact: They’re full of shit.”

On a book of photographs shot by Leni Riefenstahl in the 1950s and 1960s depicting an African tribe.

A grandmaster on the computers that have bested him and how we have misunderstood the implications of artificial intelligence.

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

How the culture of academia helped Amy Bishop, a University of Alabama scientist who murdered colleagues during a faculty meeting, fall apart.

The detective work that led to the recovery of a trove of stolen Nazi art.

How three friends and a team of frat brothers made a fortune smuggling people along the most heavily patrolled stretch of highway in Texas.

A murder involving one of the India’s celebrity couples has mesmerized the country and exposed some of its darkest fears.

Tracing the path of one of the world’s most in-demand minerals from deadly mines in Congo to your phone.

Some of the wealthiest people in America are getting ready for the crackup of civilization.

A profile of philosopher Timothy Morton, who wants humanity to give up some of its core beliefs.

A teenager in a dreary suburb of Paris live-streams her own suicide—and acquires a morbid kind of digital celebrity.

On Bob Woodward’s “rather eerie aversion to engaging the ramifications of what people say to him.”

The rise of Mike Pence’s chief of staff Nick Ayers and what it reveals about post-Citizens United politics.

A profile of a dresser of celebrities.

A Dutch gallerist made thousands of forgeries and passed them off as the work of real artists. When he was caught, a new con began.