On the master palindromist, Barry Duncan.

The tables have been turned – brutally – on Qaddafi loyalists.

“I created Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool.”

How Black America talks to the White House.

The neck-and-neck race that electrified the 1982 Boston Marathon.

How the English graphic designer set the course for contemporary visual culture.

The family history behind college football’s most talked-about player.

He wants to save classics from whiteness. Can the field survive?

On the murder at Lake Adelle.

“Look out at Twitter, at YouTube, at cable news. Behold a whole precarious world of media hopefuls swarming every bitter inch of the culture war, filming angry Americans, filming each other, filming themselves, grimly determined to find or frame a few seconds of a reality to sell.”

“A legend is growing in Nepal, where people say a meditating boy hasn’t eaten or drunk in seven months. He barely moves, just sits under a tree, still as a stone. It’s impossible, some say. Is it a miracle? A hoax? Let’s find out.”

The rise and fall of Lou Pearlman; blimp impresario, packager of boy bands like Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC, molester, fraudster, and ultimately fugitive from justice.

A dispatch from a tiny-house convention:

Here the stories pivoted around Turning Tiny. Before Tiny, there was an unhappy marriage, unpaid bills, stifling office work, a home of 2,500 square feet or more; after Tiny came freedom, new love, debt relief, self-employment, and, of course, a handmade nest.

How citizen journalists are covering the war.

How the American worker got screwed.

What happened to the only child who survived the 1985 MOVE bombing.

Transporting an instrument after a death in the family.

The Wall Street firm that bailed out Robert Mugabe.

The men who built the great American water park.

Inside the home funeral movement.

Tracking the slayings that shocked Sweden.

Meet John Zerzan, arguably the most influential anarchist in America.