An investigation into the myth of actress Frances Farmer’s lobotomy.

The head of the Social Security Administration’s secret life as a respected poet.

A report from Minnesota’s Angle Township, which was put in the U.S. instead of Canada by a map-maker’s error.

Putin, Medvedev, and how the Russian security agency FSB became the “new nobility.”

Who authorized the bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan, and why?

Deciphering the rise of a lifestyle guru who sells self-absorption as the ultimate luxury product.

An investigation leads to the deepest reaches of the internet.

Africa’s most important economy now appears to function for the benefit of one powerful family—the Guptas.

The story of Edward Averill, a blind man with one foot who robbed a bank in Austin, Texas.

With its cheap geothermal energy and low crime rate, Iceland has become the world’s leading miner of digital currency. Then the crypto-crooks showed up.

The moderators who keep Google and Youtube free of beheadings and child porn now have PTSD themselves.

It began with a series of anonymous sexual-harassment complaints that the writer knew were false. But the truth was far stranger.

How a young talent from East London went from open-mic nights to making the most sublimely unsettling show of the year.

Adrian Hong says he leads a group of “freedom fighters” conducting a revolution. Has the U.S. already betrayed them?

Genetic analysis of human remains found in the Himalayas has raised baffling questions about who these people were and why they were there.

Musicians are in peril, at the mercy of giant monopolies that profit off their work.

A spoiler-filled interview with the creator of The White Lotus.

A global outpouring of generosity after the massacre in January has left the satirical magazine rich. Its leftist staffers have conflicted feelings about that.

Exposure to the internet did not make us into a nation of yeoman mind-farmers (unless you count Minecraft). That people in the billions would self-assemble, and that these assemblies could operate in their own best interests, was … optimistic.

The author and Kamaran Najm co-founded a photo agency in Iraq and teamed up to document a new era in Kurdistan, a region with a long history of suffering. Then Kamaran was captured by ISIS.

The rising Democratic star was found in a Miami Beach hotel with a male sex worker and suspected drugs. To keep their marriage together, he and his wife, R. Jai, had to embrace a new dynamic of “radical honesty” in their relationship.

For years, a tactical police unit in Mount Vernon, New York, reigned with impunity—protecting drug dealers, planting evidence, brutalizing citizens. Then one of its own started covertly documenting the abuse.

If you were a U.S. prison warden trying to figure out how to kill people with an electric chair in the ‘80s, there was basically one guy to call. His name was Fred A. Leuchter Jr. He ran a business out of his house in the Boston suburbs, providing consulting or execution equipment to at least 27 states between 1979 and 1990. Some of Fred Leuchter’s equipment is still in use today, which is why I wanted to talk to him.

In 1998, a cop named Jon Aujay went for a run in the desert. He never came back. The department decided it was suicide, but that is not the only theory.