The decades-long saga of Michael Morton, who was wrongfully convicted of killing his wife.

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As a 15-year runaway hitchhiker, the writer was nearly killed by a trucker. Twenty seven years later, she investigates whether her attacker was truck stop serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades, who often kept his victims chained in the back of his truck for weeks before killing and dumping them.

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

Trevell Coleman wasn’t sure whether he’d killed a man. But after 17 years, he needed to find out.

A medical device company experiments on humans.

How the United States came to spend more on defense than all the other nations of the world combined.

Last fall, a team of American Special Forces arrived in Nerkh, a district just west of Kabul. Six months later, amid allegations of torturing and murdering locals, the team was gone. Shortly after they left, the remains of 10 missing villagers were found outside their vacated base. An investigation into a possible war crime.

On decorated sniper Chris Kyle and the troubled young veteran who took his life.

After two tours in Iraq, the writer returns to a volatile region of Afghanistan as an embedded journalist.

As NATO leaves, the Afghan National Army grapples with a resilient Taliban.

A writer considers America as he dies.

On waiting tables.

A personal history of “America’s most misunderstood religion.”

Guns, race, and childhood in Mississippi.

On the shifting nature of time.

An interview with Maurice Sendak.

An interview with Pavement’s Bob Nastanovich.

An interview with a john.

An interview with Kate Boo.

An interview with Spike Lee.

Animal nature, human racism, and the future of zoos.

Vegetables are "blue" in Japanese and other observations on the uneasy relationship between color and language.

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On being the parent of a micro preemie.

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Ashlyn Blocker, 13, has a “congenital insensitivity to pain.”

A profile of Taylor Wilson, who achieved nuclear fusion at age 14.

The rise and fall of the “most far-flung, most organized, and most brazen example of homosexual extortion in the nation’s history.”

The story of William Morgan: American, wanderer, Cuban revolutionary.

In 1810, a freed slave named Tom Molineaux fought one of the most important bouts in boxing history.

The legacy of a secret Cold War program that tested chemical weapons on thousands of American soldiers.

The evolution of currency as “a complete abstraction.”

A trip to visit a friend in prison.

In defense of snark.

How a comedy writer making $300,000 a year ended up homeless.

An odyssey through America’s mental health system.

The thin, resentful line between comic and audience.

The emotional toll on drone pilots.

A clandestine meeting between Western journalists and Hezbollah fighters in a Beirut strip mall.

The story of Bowe Bergdahl, a soldier who walked off his base in Afghanistan only to be captured by the Taliban.

On Jack Idema, a con-man who once ran a pet hotel before reinventing himself as a black-ops secret agent in Afghanistan, and the history of counterinsurgency theory.

Inside the attack on the U.S. embassy in Kabul.

After the storms, a man tries to find his lost cat.

A doctor and a rabbi try to find ways to understand the world, and God, and one another.

A woman’s communications and interactions with a potential criminal.

A dirty story about delicate hands.

A story about love letters and failed connections.