The strange saga of the real-life Simpsons house in Nevada.

The most prolific bank robber in Texas history.

Life as an air-traffic controller in the ’90s.

A report from Sprague’s Sports, a firearms emporium in Yuma, Arizona.

How an island in the Antipodes became the world’s leading supplier of licit opioids.

How one company helps landlords exploit a loophole in New York’s tenant laws.

How Barcelona became the most successful—and most beloved—club in soccer.

A week in the life of a family weathering the coronavirus.

Three nights with 311 in the waning moments of free American life.

Six months of life and death in America.

Cryptomining in Europe’s most disputed state.

And what it lost in the process.

Ghanaian sculptor El Anatsui is redefining Africa’s place in the global art scene.

Finding meaning in the climate fight.

Searching for home at a cowboy poetry convention in Elko, Nevada.

“Miles Davis was a deeply competitive artist, and the idea that he was losing audiences to white rock musicians with inferior skills—and, worse, had to open for them at concerts—inspired him to beat them at their own game. But he did so very much on his own terms.”

Scott Catt was a single dad trying to make ends meet, so he started robbing banks. Then he needed accomplices, so he asked his kids.

After years of avoiding the uncomfortable truths about how his gadgets are made, a Mac fanboy travels to Foxconn to see for himself.

Update 3/16/12: This American Life retracted this story today after it was revealed to have “contained significant fabrications.”

A profile of Max Wade, a Marin County teenager on trial for stealing Guy Fieri’s Lamborghini and using it in the first drive-by in the history of Mill Valley, California.

“As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy can be stated in an axiom: the defense of privacy follows, and never precedes, the emergence of new technologies for the exposure of secrets. In other words, the case for privacy always comes too late.”