Uncovering the true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin.

The surreal afterlife of the once-ascendant Dubai, where “the legacy of oil has made everything worthless.”

A profile of Sabrina Harman, the soldier who took many of the notorious Abu Ghraib photographs.

How Dennis from Head of the Class grew up to be the Aaron Sorkin of tween television.

The birth of the Beastie Boys—an oral history on the 25th anniversary of Licensed to Ill.

The Washington University philosophy professor devotes 4,697 words to the importance of using one’s education to better communicate with loved ones:

I want to talk to you about talking, that commonest of all our intended activities, for talking is our public link with one another; it is a need; it is an art; it is the chief instrument of all instruction; it is the most personal aspect of our private life. To those who have sponsored our appearance in the world, the first memorable moment to follow our inaugural bawl is the birth of our first word. It is that noise, a sound that is no longer a simple signal, like the greedy squalling of a gull, but a declaration of the incipient presence of mind, that delivers us into the human realm.

A profile of the hard-living, cop-dodging artist Dash Snow, published two years before his death of an overdose.

On the 1934 lynching of Claude Neal, and the Florida town that kept the identity of those responsible a secret.

“The Anonymous mystique had allowed a group of incompetents to hijack, then discredit, an important grassroots movement in the eyes of national media.”

A professor of sociology at Columbia reckons with her father’s relationship with Adolf Eichmann.

A group of journalists and researchers wade into ugly corners of the Internet to expose racists, creeps, and hypocrites. Have they gone too far?

Reporting on the “American Way of Life,” two years after the end of World War II.

Albuquerque has one of the highest rates in the country of fatal shootings by police, and no officer has been indicted.

How Sinclair Broadcast Group bent the rules, bought politicians, and faked the news to become one of the largest independent owners of television stations in America.

The physical rigors of pregnancy tangle with the personal ambitions of a war photojournalist, without limiting her in the least.

Turning down the huge amounts of money a fracking contract can offer is always the beginning of a fight.

For decades a group of radical Catholics, many of them nuns, have been keeping up the good fight against nuclear weapons.

The author visits City of Refuge in Pahokee, Florida, a community of more than 100 registered sex offenders.

Investigating the death of Rikers Island women’s jail inmate Jackie Caquias, and other abuses of women prisoners’ access to medical care.

The 34-year-old virgin father-of-15 at the forefront of the controversial DIY sperm donation movement.

A profile of 25-year-old Lena Dunham, showrunner and star of HBO’s Girls.

The complicated case of Brigitte Harris, who, after years of abuse, accidentally killed her father by cutting off his penis.

“Being Justin Bieber means having an endless number of T-shirts to destroy.” A profile of the pop star just after his 18th birthday.