In Utah, an unlikely leader is looking to end the state’s land-use wars.

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.

On the segregation of Slovakia’s Gypsies.

The downfall of Hugo Schwyzer, feminist.

An oral history of “Page Six.”

John Dirr’s son Eli didn’t really have cancer. In fact, neither Eli nor John Dirr ever existed.

A decade-long Internet hoax unravels.

In 1970, he was plucked from Saigon to attend West Point. He got his degree and went home to fight, but instead spent six years in a reeducation camp. Then, somehow, he ended up teaching high school in D.C.

Most tycoons give big to one or two universities as their children approach college age. David Shaw gave to seven.

While much of the Levin report describes past history, the Goldman section describes an ongoing? crime — a powerful, well-connected firm, with the ear of the president and the Treasury, that appears to have conquered the entire regulatory structure and stands now on the precipice of officially getting away with one of the biggest financial crimes in history.

Murder in the Juarez Valley:

A few weeks after Saul Reyes and his family fled Mexico, I drove to an immigrant shelter in downtown El Paso to see him. As the former city secretary of Guadalupe, Saul had once been in charge of recording the births and deaths of everyone in his hometown. He’d taken it upon himself now to collect every single name of those who had died or disappeared in Guadalupe since the killing began in 2008. Through media reports and meetings with the many valley exiles now living in Texas, Saul had compiled a list of the town’s dead and disappeared. Showing me the book, he turned page after page of names. So far he had counted 180 dead, 26 disappeared, and eight unknown bodies dumped in his small town of 3,000 people. “There are a lot more, but these are the ones I’ve been able to collect,” he said. In his careful, spidery script, he had written on one page the names of his six family members.

The murder of a rapper amid the rise of Greece’s fascist party.

A history of spam on the internet.

On the morality of procreation and the origins of birth control.

A profile of the Hell’s Angels following “front-page reports of a heinous gang rape in the moonlit sand dunes near the town of Seaside on the Monterey Peninsula.”

On Enrique of Malacca, “the closest thing there is to a hero in the story of Ferdinand Magellan’s horribly botched attempt to circumnavigate the world.”

It started as simple teenage rebellion but ended up tearing Syria apart, setting in motion events that continue to rock the Middle East — and the world. The boys behind the graffiti would become unlikely revolutionaries and reluctant refugees. Not all of them would survive the upheaval they helped unleash.

The behind-the-scenes story of how NFL prospect Michael Sam came out.

A profile of Theo Epstein, the architect behind the Chicago Cubs.