Argentina’s Lio Messi, the best soccer player on the planet, stands all of 5’7” and needed growth-hormone injections to get there.

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.”

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.

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.

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.

“Has anybody in Westchester County ever called the New York Times his or her ‘friend’? I realize that the rest of America, in its post-Katrina fatigue, is pretty tired of hearing New Orleanians, the city’s acolytes and defenders, always carrying on about how it’s the most unique city in America, but, the fact is, it is. Get over it.

And so, too, is its newspaper.”

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.

Cycles of boom and bust in the drilling town of Williston, N.D., as seen from the perspective of an itinerant dancer filling one of three slots at the only strip club in town, Whispers.

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.

Joseph James DeAngelo Jr., known as the Golden State Killer, is alleged to have murdered 13 people in California during the 1970s and 1980s. He also raped 50 women. He’ll stand trial for the murders only.

The region’s hyper-local response has lessons for us as we confront the winter wave and begin to distribute vaccines.

Kidnappers in Mexico have changed their business model from retail to wholesale—instead of extorting a handful of rich families, they are targeting thousands of undocumented migrants.

Scenes of grief, from the sister of comedian Harris Wittels.

An interview with T.J. Jackson Lears, historian of the “charlatans and hucksters of the Gilded Age, the cagey, conniving street peddlers of what we’d rather think was a premodern world.”