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.

The Badger State is designed to keep Republicans in power, at the expense of the minority vote.

The death of a submissive man-pup and the scrotal silicone injection that killed him.

He pauses and glances around him. Just about everyone in the place is aware of him now. When he continues, the voice is still under control, but the eyes have become lasers. “I know that some of the press is out to get me. It’s ’cause I’m more intelligent than they are, I handle myself well, I’m wealthy and I’m black—and there ain’t nothin’ they can do about it.” He flashes his joyless smile

The decade-long journey of a novel–Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding–through the unpredictable world of book publishing.

He was a powerful executive at some of the best-known companies in the world. Then he started robbing banks. The meteoric rise and dramatic fall of Steve Carroll, the high-flying corporate executive who wanted it all.

On the search for migrants lost at sea and the families left behind.

A Thanksgiving story about the limits of human empathy.

How a town of 29,000 on the Hudson River came to be “one of the most dangerous four-mile stretches in the northeastern United States.”

How the Kremlin built one of the most powerful information weapons of the 21st century — and why it may be impossible to stop.

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

How the President could endanger the official records of one of the most consequential periods in American history.

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.

Their mom and dad were two of the 33,091 people to die of opioid overdoses in 2015. Now, three children in West Virginia must move forward amid an epidemic.

Phil Locke made millions charging working people 400% interest. Then he had a change of heart.

Pvt. Felix Hall died in the only known murder of its kind on a U.S. military base.

Amidst the football-obsessed culture of small-town Christian colleges in Kansas, a player is killed at a party.

“The whole thing has a sort of Taylor Swift-meets-jihad feel.”

The making and near unmaking of Paul Thomas Anderson’s breakout film.

A Black Lives Matter confrontation pitted neighbor against neighbor—and displayed the raw power of a social media flash mob.

An interview with “one of the most influential data gurus” in electoral politics.

The catfishing of Chris Andersen.

The construction of a modern American myth.

Putin's daughter Katerina has been attending college under the surname Tikhonova and is one of the top "acrobatic rock'n'roll dance" competitors in the world.

She is the also the rumored spouse of the son of one of Russia's richest bankers. While Putin reported only $119,000 on last year's tax return, his daughter's fortune could now stretch into the billions.