How cops use arcane pedestrian laws to racially profile people in Jacksonville, Florida.

What it means to be beautiful in the most populous country on earth.

“Your dreams always have to be big. And mine were huge.”

The lives of programmers sent abroad by Pyongyang to make money by any means necessary.

An investigation into how the NYPD responds to sexual assault cases.

The Belgian forward’s journey to greatness.

How Viagra went from a medical mistake to a $3 billion industry.

On growing up, writing, and succumbing to bullshit.

Inside Tesla’s factory, a medical clinic designed to ignore injured workers.

A visit to the massive Northern California surf break.

A fatal overdose, a stunning coincidence, and a mother’s long quest to heal.

A new approach to fighting the opioid crisis as it quietly rages on.

One man’s quest to save the music of the Holocaust.

Welcome to Toke-la-homa.

On trying, and failing, to qualify for the USA Olympic Marathon Trials.

A writer bears witness to New York’s endangered species.

On the tragic flood of elder death in the wake of COVID-19.

And as time arcs and stops and speeds and slows now, I watch myself ride the agony of the death. It’s not out of resistance, exactly, but a need to inquire into both time’s speed and the callous logic, basically eugenicist, that on bad days, the rest of the world seems to hold: that she was old enough to die this way.

On losing a brother and trying to get him home.

Did people first come to this continent by land or by sea?

Dov Charney’s struggle to keep control of American Apparel.

From Word to smartphones.

How seven Italian scientists came to be convicted of manslaughter following a catastrophic quake.

A high school baseball team responds to a loss.

Richard Simmons at 64, sweatin’ to the oldies (and country and disco) thrice weekly.

After offending Richard Marx, the author meets him to hash things out.