A false confession to bad cops put a man in prison for rape and murder. But even conclusive DNA evidence hasn’t gotten him out.

Ellen Pao recounts her own lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

Over the last several weeks, dozens of lawmakers, strategists and advocates described the closed-door meetings and tactical decisions that led to approval of same-sex marriage in New York, about two years after it was rejected by the Legislature. This account is based on those interviews, most of which were granted on the condition of anonymity to describe conversations that were intended to be confidential.

“Most cities spread like inkblots; a few, such as Manhattan, grew in linear increments. Paris expanded in concentric rings, approximately shown by the spiral numeration of its arrondissements.”

On the chaotic letters of journalist and Dr. Strangelove screenwriter Terry Southern.

The author relives her Romanian youth and the imprisonment of her father through the Securitate files kept on her family.

The impact of the oil and gas booms taking place all over the world, and our future on fossil fuels.

What should be done with the bodies of ISIS fighters? While investigating in Mosul, the author uncovers a terrible crime.

Bobby Fischer unravels before the 1972 World Chess Championships, a.k.a. the “Match of the Century.”

How a meteorite hunter’s obsession took him from the mountains of Colorado, to the Bundy Ranch, and eventually landed him in jail.

“The academy’s prestige has been shattered, probably forever,” by allegations of sexual harassment and corruption.

The world’s fastest growing economy isn’t China; it’s the “unheralded alternative economic universe of System D” aka the $10 trillion global black market.

The untold story behind the mysterious disappearance of Fan Bingbing, the world’s biggest movie star.

The untold story of Alek Minassian, a year after the deadliest mass murder in Toronto history

Eira Thomas’s company has used radical new methods to find some of the biggest uncut gems in history.

Diné activist Nicole Horseherder’s long quest for equity from the rise and fall of the coal economy.

As landlords and tenants go broke across the U.S., the next crisis point of the pandemic approaches.

The ghosts of the uranium boom continue to haunt the land, water, and people.

A profile of the D.O.C., the rapper’s rapper, who ghostwrote for Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg.

A profile of cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter, who has spent the last 30 years trying to replicate the human mind.

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

Ripping out the guts of an “utterly preposterous document”: the Starr Report on the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

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