The story of twin boys who became brother and sister.

On the set of Aaron Sorkin’s new HBO show The Newsroom.

The cold, forgotten realities of “conventional warfare.”

The mysterious life of the serial stowaway Marilyn Hartman.

On the evolution of the Whitney Museum.

The rise and fall of Suck.com, the web’s first daily-updated site.

The story of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, written and published the following week.

On the Aran islands of Ireland.

The story of September 26, 2014, the day 43 Mexican students went missing.

The story of a national obsession.

An argument on the meaning of Cubism settled.

Behold the marvel of the animal’s fabrication.

The rise and stunning collapse of a cybersecurity firm.

On the future of air travel.

The Canadian scapegoat of the AIDS epidemic.

They were pillars of their communities and families, and they are not replaceable. To understand why COVID-19 killed so many young Black men, you need to know the legend of John Henry.

The story of how Michael Larson cracked the code of Press Your Luck, winning $104,950 in cash, a sailboat ($1,015), and two all-inclusive trips.

A single-page version of Shalhoup’s reporting on the Black Mafia Family, one of the largest cocaine empires in American history.

Over the span of four years, federal investigators estimated millions of dollars stolen from Mexican taxpayers passed through one South Texas bank. When they followed the trail, it led to real estate, cars, and airplanes. But in 2018, those investigations suddenly stopped.

Another look at a popular myth.

For the longest time blues fans didn’t even know what their hero looked like—in 1971, a music magazine even hired a forensic artist to make a composite sketch based on various first-hand accounts—until two photos of Robert Johnson finally came to light.  The dapper young man pictured in the most famous photo, dressed in a stylish suit and smiling affably at the camera, hardly looks like a man who has sold his soul to Lucifer.

Rethinking Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil.

A story of endurance in the face of unimaginably brutal conditions.

Pitching a no-hitter in the middle of a multi-day acid bender was only one of Dock Ellis’ many amazing exploits.

Video-game designer Zoë Quinn in the aftermath of Gamergate, an act of web harassment with world-altering implications.