In the age of citizen journalism, smartphones and streaming video, bearing witness to human rights violations is getting easier. Is it also making justice more complicated?

How our memories become contaminated by inaccuracies.

An essay on the wounded woman.

An essay on the pitcher, friendship and death.

On Joni Mitchell and canons.

This past Memorial Day weekend, Steven T. Florio, the president and CEO of Conde Nast Publications, made a dramatic change at The New Yorker, the most illustrious of the 17 magazines he runs for billionaire S.I. "Si" Newhouse Jr. He fired his own brother.

On the history of the Bund, an armed, socialist anti-Zionist group that was once the most popular Jewish party in Poland until they were murdered in the Holocaust.

"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."

Policing the world of experimental research in the age of TED talks and Freakonomics.

The fall of PCCare247, an Indian company in the business of selling fixes to problems that didn’t exist.

On the constantly evolving definition of insider trading and the lingering question of how inside traders should be punished.

Inside the world of special operations weather technicians, “the Department of Defense’s only commando forecasters.”

A profile of Jim Henson before the release of the first Muppet movie.

The story of former Vikings linebacker Fred McNeill and the lasting impact of his concussions.

Tony Kushner and the burdens of being one of the last public intellectuals in American theater.

How coach Gregg Popovich’s love of fine wine led to a 20-year run of success in the NBA.

On Marie-Madeline Marguerite, a 1600s French serial killer.

The CEO of the US’s biggest bank doesn’t have much charisma or a track record, but he’s “doing as well as any little Dutch boy can—sticking his fingers in the dike.”

Why domestic violence is even worse if the abuser is a cop.

Billy Dillon was about to sign a contract with the Detroit Tigers. Instead he was convicted–wrongly–of first-degree murder and spent the next 27 years in prison.

Searching for a ghost of Meyer Lansky’s Cuba, a sex-show star who quietly disappeared from the island and was later immortalized in The Godfather Part II.

Dead construction workers, a corrupt political family, and the “impossibly lucrative casino” on the island of Saipan where Chinese gamblers can game on U.S. soil.

As mass demonstrations against police brutality continue across the country, thousands gather in New York to demonstrate against generations of police brutality and racial injustice in America.