The “naked technological realities” of America’s heartland and how they power a “cosy coastal world of pretend farmers’ markets and happy cows.”

The producer of Big Star’s Third and piano player on ‘Wild Horses’ recounts a life of music in Memphis.

How a man of little education and little means invented a simple machine that changed the lives of women in rural India.

The long legal saga of Kerry Max Cook, who for almost 40 years fought to clear his name after being convicted of murder.

Fourteen other tornadoes hit Georgia on April 27 and 28. This was not the record — that would be twenty, during Tropical Storm Alberto in 1994. But it was one of the worst twenty-four-hour periods in the history of the state. Tornadoes hit Trenton, Cherokee Valley, south of LaGrange, and Covington; killed seven people in a neighborhood in Catoosa County, swept through Ringgold, and killed two more — a disabled man and his caregiver — in a double-wide trailer on the far end of Spalding County. Those tornadoes got all the attention. The Vaughn tornado didn’t even warrant an article in a major newspaper. No one talked about Vaughn. The only way for a person to really find out about it was to drive past.

How A+E’s CEO is navigating the new TV environment with hit shows like “Duck Dynasty.”

How the new store is—and isn’t—changing Detroit.

On the late comedian Bill Hicks, just as a performance on Letterman is deemed unfit for network TV.

In his work with the White House, is Mohammed bin Salman driving out extremism, or merely seizing power for himself?

Why now is the time to rethink COVID safety protocols for children—and everyone else.

Y.A. Tittle, an 87-year-old Hall of Fame quarterback with dementia, travels to his hometown for the last time.

A profile of the highest-paid female executive in America, who was born male.

A profile of Prince as Diamonds and Pearls was released, based mostly off a brief phone call, all the access he’ll allow.

A profile of a virtual kingpin.

A profile of Joe Biden, written not long after the car crash that killed his wife and daughter.

Vengeance, abuse, and the strange double standards of death penalty politics.

A trip to the zoo, Charlie Kaufman’s new film, and human despair.

A profile of Evgeny Morozov, “either the most astute, feared, loathed, or useless writer about digital technology working today.”

The murderous tale of Washington D.C. fabulist Albrecht Muth and his late wife Viola Drath.

He built it as a “portal into a world of quiet.”

For the members of UCLA’s undocumented immigrant club, going to school means fighting for an education most students take for granted.

The story of how Washington blew its best shot to do something on climate change.

A profile of Ken Griffey, Jr., six years after he last played a baseball game.

The lip-syncing app Musical.ly claims that it has signed up 50% of American teens.