The story of a broken neighborhood.

Stuart Redus and Fernando Torres were left for dead.

An oral history of Air Force One on September 11th.

“A love letter to my new country.”

“Do you think you’re talking to a normal person here?”

“I underwent, during the summer that I became fourteen, a prolonged religious crisis. I use “religious” in the common, and arbitrary, sense, meaning that I then discovered God, His saints and angels, and His blazing Hell. And since I had been born in a Christian nation, I accepted this Deity as the only one. I supposed Him to exist only within the walls of a church—in fact, of our church—and I also supposed that God and safety were synonymous.”

A new kind of late capitalism.

Twenty years later, the author looks back.

Jaimee was beloved. Jaimee was struggling. And then Jaimee was gone.

How Jim Hayes blew it all.

Two people went for a hike on the Appalachian Trail. Only one made it out.

Turns out animal intelligence is not so different from our own.

Being pregnant again means being willing to end it.

What happens when America’s darkest crime writer sees the light?

Where Big Tech goes to ask deep questions.

On long-distance grief.

A found diary holds a love story—and a mystery.

The double life of Aaron Hernandez.

“Over the years, it’s been hard to get male movie stars to be in a movie if a woman’s the lead, where a great, great movie star, a woman, will be in a movie where the man’s the lead. So there’s just not parity there, we’re not on equal footing.”

Tom Wicker was without a notebook on November 22, 1963. Instead, reported Gay Talese, he “scribbled his observations and facts across the back of a mimeographed itinerary of Kennedy’s two-day tour of Texas.”

Here’s the 3,700-word masterpiece he filed.

The first entry in the City by City project, on a Baltimore funeral:

My homeboy is interred at a cemetery with a swan lake where we used to take our girls at night because it was a park with a lake and it was just over the line and in the county.

Life on the other side of the laptop.

Decades later, U.S.-backed dictator Hissène Habré faces justice.

On the campaign trail with Richard Nixon.