On Joni Mitchell and canons.

"The couple tried to make them leave. They complained to the police. When that didn’t work, they tried to build friendships, hoping they could charm the squatters into respecting their property. Sometimes, they hid in their house. For three years, the tension built. Until one sweltering summer night in 2016."

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.

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.

Bentonville, Arkansas, is home to Walmart’s headquarters. It’s also a town in which the Walton Family Foundation works like a parallel state, creating a kind of twenty-first-century company town.

In the shallow reefs of Ayungin Shoal sits a rusted-out ship manned by eight Filipino soldiers whole sole purpose is to keep China in check.

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.

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.

One story of coming to America from the Soviet Union.

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.

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

A writer’s trip home to Hot Springs, Arkansas, and the racetrack inextricably linked with the histories of his family and his hometown.

A profile of the Mexican newsweekly, a “lone voice” in reporting on the narcos.