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.

How the ‘princeling’ descendants of Mao’s ‘Eight Immortals’consolidated unimaginable power and wealth in the New China.

The stories of two dozen strangers who survived the Joplin, Mo., tornado by hiding in a walk-in beer cooler.

They believe that strangers on the street watch them, follow them in vans, whisper as they pass. Their family urge them to seek help. Then they find people online who have experienced the same thing they have.

On Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.

After Hurricane Maria, the number of women killed by their partners doubled. Survivors say the government’s misguided response has put more lives in danger.

The story of Thor Holm Hansen—”Norwegian country singer, a former Outlaws motorcycle chieftain, and an ‘ambassador at large’ to a rebel Haitian government”—who claims to be back in Florida to locate his missing daughter.

She was the daughter of movie mogul Harry Warner. He was 15 years younger and embezzled her money, landing himself in jail. In prison, he offered a young inmate named Richard Matt $100,000 to kill her.

Anatomy of an international incident; how three idealistic young American hikers wandered across the Kurdistan-Iran border and ended up in Iranian prison charged with spying.

A profile of Malala Yousafzai, the young activist from Pakistan who was just awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Alfred Dellentash Jr. chartered the Rolling Stones in private jets while smuggling planeloads of Pablo Escobar’s drugs on the side.

On CEO Reed Hastings and the future of Netflix.

Mementos left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the man in charge of cataloging them.

The mysterious life and death of Dow B. Hover, the man who ran New York’s electric chair.

The son of an American anthropologist returns to the Amazon to reunite with his mother, an indigenous tribeswoman.

In the Winter of 1964, the Fab Four rocket to superstardom in just six weeks.

On the increasing tension between the pleasant, thoughtful indie rock of car commercials and those who insist on something weirder.

Kevin Wheatcroft owns the world’s largest collection of Nazi memorabilia. And he’s suddenly eager to show it off.

Right now, never-ending technological progress feels inevitable. It isn’t. And that’s a good thing. A talk on the future of the internet.

The story of Jeffrey Fowle, an Ohio man who tried to smuggle a Bible into North Korea.

What the first-sale doctrine means for the future of copyright.

The life and death of Marla Ruzicka, a 28-year-old aid worker in Baghdad.

On the ever-expanding world of targeted online advertising.