A beaten man tries to come back from purgatory.

The despair behind the puzzle of what happened to Malaysian Airlines flight 370.

Has global warming made it harder for environmentalists to care about conservation?

She teaches directors to direct.

The events leading up to the botched execution of Clayton Lockett.

Fifteen years ago, William Dranginis saw Bigfoot. He’s still trying to prove it.

The case that brought leaks to the popular consciousness.

From bombs to a boxer, variations on a name.

A few months after working at Ground Zero, Kurt Sonnenfeld became a suspect in the mysterious and high-profile death of his wife. He got off, barely, and started a new life in South America. But when the U.S. tried to bring him back to face charges, Sonnenfeld went to the local media. The Feds didn’t want him for murder, he said. They wanted to put him away because of what he knew about 9/11.

“A love letter to my new country.”

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

Visiting a gargantuan shrine to democracy in 2017.

How the Raiders got to Las Vegas.

To be a second-grader contending with violence.

Coming to terms with exercise bulimia.

“These documents show how Palantir applies Silicon Valley’s playbook to domestic law enforcement. New users are welcomed with discounted hardware and federal grants, sharing their own data in return for access to others’. When enough jurisdictions join Palantir’s interconnected web of police departments, government agencies, and databases, the resulting data trove resembles a pay-to-access social network—a Facebook of crime that’s both invisible and largely unaccountable to the citizens whose behavior it tracks.”

Apples, plastic bags, teeth. The author’s letter to his unborn child.

How a Colorado ranch taught the author to sit still.

The journey to recover three bodies from Mt. Everest.

Netflix has hired everyone and they already know what you’re going to like.

What happens when your neighborhood, your city, seem to have lost their way?

On trying to figure out what’s next.

The woman who moved to a ghost town.

Lena Dunham comes to terms with herself.