A year of reporting reveals a culture of incest, rape, and abuse.

On the industry’s gatekeeping.

The ethical burdens of the ICU during Covid.

How cars have become weapons at protests, and why it is likely to continue.

My wife is not a terrorist.

Murder in the Juarez Valley:

A few weeks after Saul Reyes and his family fled Mexico, I drove to an immigrant shelter in downtown El Paso to see him. As the former city secretary of Guadalupe, Saul had once been in charge of recording the births and deaths of everyone in his hometown. He’d taken it upon himself now to collect every single name of those who had died or disappeared in Guadalupe since the killing began in 2008. Through media reports and meetings with the many valley exiles now living in Texas, Saul had compiled a list of the town’s dead and disappeared. Showing me the book, he turned page after page of names. So far he had counted 180 dead, 26 disappeared, and eight unknown bodies dumped in his small town of 3,000 people. “There are a lot more, but these are the ones I’ve been able to collect,” he said. In his careful, spidery script, he had written on one page the names of his six family members.

A profoundly neglected 6-year-old gets a new home.

Reconsidering Virginia Woolf’s novel, Orlando.

At home, Arkansas’s favorite son can do no wrong.

On Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, screenwriters.

Is a Marine responsible for a series of violent attacks against women?

How a couple made millions on uncanny forgeries.

The Syrian civil war crosses into Lebanon.

Searching for a mysterious whirpool on an obscure map.

An asshole learns to sing.

The brief life and complicated death of Tommy Lasorda’s gay son.

On decorated sniper Chris Kyle and the troubled young veteran who took his life.

The rock critic confronts his favorite musician.

A nation strips 210,000 of citizenship and sets the stage for mass deportations.

A reckless billion-dollar industry that occasionally kills.

Middle class apps struggle to survive.

Investigating the murder of a Costa Rican conservationist.

How “Do What You Love” devalues actual work.

A small Texas town suddenly finds it’s the home of a possible cult.

Memories of the old neighborhood, before everything changed.