In 1910, East Texas saw one of America’s deadliest post-Reconstruction racial purges. One survivor’s descendants have waged an uphill battle for generations to unearth that violent past.

Lee Holloway programmed internet security firm Cloudflare into being. But then he became apathetic, distant, and unpredictable—for a long time, no one could make sense of it.

Daniel Kish is entirely sightless. So how can he ride a bike on busy streets? Go hiking for days alone? By using a technique borrowed from bats.

On animal cremation and burial in New York:

Riding around Manhattan on a delivery run with a car full of pet cremains, it's hard not to look at the world differently. The omnipresence of pets becomes glaringly obvious, and their inevitable fate is never far from the mind. It's easy to imagine the whippet being jaywalked across Eighth Avenue getting hit by a car. The cocker spaniel on 23rd Street? A bucket of cocker bones in the making.

Throughout 2015 and 2016, amid a series of conversations I had socially with gay and bisexual men about chemsex, new, darker elements to this scene began to emerge; details from unconnected participants that mirrored each other – the same incidents, the same crimes, sometimes even the same culprits. Together they formed a picture: that beneath the surface reports about chemsex – the endless hedonism, the irresistibly intense sex – there is a much blacker sea, unmapped.

How a 26-year-old cocktail waitress ended up running a private weekly poker game for some of Hollywood’s highest rollers.

The GOP’s younger generation confronts its future.

The enduring disadvantage of getting locked up.

The story of a whale attack.

A mother struggles to cope when a child is born with albinism.

Libor, ISDAfix, and how the big banks do business.

Horst von Wächter confronts - and rationalizes - a difficult family legacy.

Unpacking a false confession 20 years later.

A profile of Russell Baze, the winningest jockey in American history.

Investigating the burning of ancient books by rebels in Timbuktu.

The Srebrenica massacre, almost 20 years later.

Following a lobster from sea to table.

Rand Paul as the movement’s Pearl Jam.

On the rise in gay teens who are cast out by their families.

How an education reform effort became the new Obamacare.

A trip to the U.S. Open of ping-pong.

Fame, fashion, and a trip to the zoo.

Retro, apocalypticism, and our “culture of disaster.”