An oral history of Air Force One on September 11th.

A profile of “the internet’s boyfriend.”

”In West Antarctica, scientists have discovered the engine of catastrophe.”

A young couple, their warring families, and the risks of marrying for love in India.

A new kind of late capitalism.

The many identities of Andrew Cunanan, Gianni Versace’s murderer.

Could a global icon of extinction still be alive?

The making of Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption 2.

The parallel lives of a KGB defector and his CIA handler.

The inside story of a Texas gun-smuggling ring.

On the rescue in July of two children from a burning apartment in southern France.

Shamir is 15, bored and broke and balancing right on the edge.

The market for Hirst’s work is in a tailspin. Why?

TSA is tracking regular travelers like terrorists in a secret surveillance program.

Qaddafi’s son is alive. And he wants to take Libya back.

Prison rape is an epidemic; but the bulk of abuses are not by prisoners themselves, but by guards and other prison workers.

The author travels to Dubai; Arab children see snow for the first time, which is made by a Kenyan.

The “CEO monk” is decidedly unfamiliar with RZA, Ghostface Killah and Ol’ Dirty Bastard.

Detroit is dying. But it’s not dead yet. Just ask Charlie LeDuff.

The rush to find a conspiracy around the COVID-19 pandemic’s origins is driven by narrative, not evidence.

As the head of the CBF, Ricardo Teixera rules Brazilian futebol from the top down, controlling everything from the value of championships to broadcast rights. He needs the pull off a flawless 2014 World Cup in order to set the stage for being elected FIFA’s president, but there’s one hitch; the trail of bribes and scandals he has left in his wake.

Whenever you want him to go on the record, Teixeira shushes you and raises a finger to his lips.  He addresses men and women alike as “meu amor,” with an exaggerated Rio accent. “Meu amor, it’s all been said about me – that I smuggled goods in the Brazilian national team’s airplane, that there’s been dirty dealing in the World Cup, all those investigations into Nike and the CBF."

Translated from the original Portugese.

The inside story of an improbable team of divers, a near-impossible plan and the rescue of 12 boys from a Thai cave.

An interesting side effect of reading the report is to feel that anyone who claims to have understood its arguments, purposes, and consequences within twenty-four or forty-eight hours of encountering it is likely untrustworthy.

"Imagine a great hall of fetishes where whatever you felt like fucking or being fucked by, however often your tastes might change, no matter what hardware or harnesses were required, you could open the gates and have at it on a comfy mattress at any time of day. That’s what the internet has become for music fans. Plus bleacher seats for a cheering section."

In November 2012, Salvador Alvarenga went fishing off the coast of Mexico. Two days later, a storm hit and he made a desperate SOS. It was the last anyone heard from him—for 438 days.