The capitalist evangelism of Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In feminist manifesto.

Memories of her father and her time in Tennessee.

Why Obama won’t rein in the NSA.

How a substandard abortion provider stays in business.

Is the anonymous, reclusive inventor of Bitcoin this 64-year-old man in Los Angeles?

On (not) getting by in the gig economy.

An investigation into serial killings in a small North Carolina city.

Inside the most sensational murder in the history of study abroad.

Part one of a planned nine-part serialized biography of Harrison Gray Otis, the “inventor of modern Los Angeles.”

Future installments will include Otis’s interlude as “emperor of the Pribilofs,” his military atrocities in the Philippines, his bitter legal battles with the Theosophists, the Otis-Chandler empire in the Mexicali Valley, the Times bombing in 1910, the notorious discovery of fellatio in Long Beach, and Otis’s quixotic plan for world government.

The story of the Abbottabad raid, in detail.

Portrait of a Chinese-American family living in New York.

The story of eight young people who died in a New Orleans squat fire.

A Montana sheriff and a manhunt in the mountains.

In Chicago at the 130th National Funeral Directors Conference.

Hanging out in New Orleans.

Gentrification and its discontents in Paris, throughout the centuries.

An oral history of the Pacers/Pistons melee in 2004.

Searching for the reclusive band’s studio in Düsseldorf.

The city that fell in love with the mob.

The enduring system of organized crime in Naples.

A profile from his days living as a mountain monk in Southern California.

“It’s 7:30 a.m., and already the congressman and I are covered in blood.”

Invented in 1899, it hasn’t been improved upon since.

A veteran critic reviews 32 shows in 30 days.

Growing up Afghan in the era of the Afghanistan War.