On the experimental favela police force UPP (aka “The Big Skull”) and their efforts to clean Rio’s largest slum in advance of the World Cup and Olympics.

Convicted and facing jail time plus a crippling fine in Sweden, the founders of the torrent site The Pirate’s Bay have scattered across the world towards new lives: fatherhood in Laos, a junkie’s life in Phnom Penh, and start-up work in Berlin.

How the real estate boom left Black neighborhoods behind.

The “subtly radical” open-source plant movement.

The legacy of a phantom bluesman.

How we try - and usually fail - to fight the mosquito.

Finding meaning in the climate fight.

A socially starved world might just be the best thing ever to happen to the private club empire — which is about to IPO.

Police and scientists investigate an outbreak.

When authorities fail families, Lissa Yellowbird-Chase steps in.

Robert Blake, Bonny Lee Bakley, and the misery of celebrity.

Projectionist provocateur Robin Bell lights up the night.

A war criminal’s life on the run.

The people working to make energy efficient homes cheap.

Ghost towns and nuclear waste sites are among what you find in the Nevada desert.

Visiting a cattle market in Karachi, right before the feast of Eid.

Lena Dunham comes to terms with herself.

Investigating the unsolved murder of Malcolm X’s grandson.

A profile of law professor Dan Kahan, “one of the best-known unknown academics in the country,” who wants to close the communication gap between scientists and the public.

On the battle over solar farms in the Mojave desert. An excerpt from Madrigal’s new book, Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology.

As the country heads into a dangerous new phase of the pandemic, the government’s management of the P.P.E. crisis has left the private sector still straining to meet anticipated demand.

Immigrant nannies leave their own children behind to care for others’.

Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian launches an ambitious campaign.

A reporter makes it his mission to track down all 42 members of a platoon after their service in Iraq.