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.

How Christopher Hitchens, a former socialist, became one of the most vigorous defenders of the war in Iraq.

Frank Rich on The Promise, Jonathan Alter’s book about the first year of the Obama administration.

Why Darwin’s theory of sexual selection is wrong and “gayness is a necessary side effect of getting along.”

The brain of Henry Molaison gave science most of what it knows about memory. Dr. Jacopo Annese believes there’s even more to learn.

The article that spawned a school of thought; an elegy for the age of the megahit and a primer for the niche-based future.

A profile of Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson, published at the height of the controversy.