A profile of Alan Adler, the guy behind the Aerobie and the beloved AeroPress.

In the Swiss town of Meiringen, where an obsessed group of ‘pilgrims’ painstakingly recreate the death of Sherlock Holmes.

Baruch Vega ran a scheme that ensnared Colombian cocaine kingpins and gave him a life of luxury. Then one put a price on his head.

The prevalence of online threats against women and why the people who make them go unpunished.

His almost superhuman exploits made him one of the West’s most feared lawmen. Today, the legendary deputy U.S. marshal is widely believed to be the real Lone Ranger. But his true legacy is even greater.

Successful SoundCloud rapper. Genre-bending artist. You may or may not know Post Malone. Here are some little-known facts that will help you get to know him.

For more than 40 years, a former Olympian allegedly has been molesting boys and young men. Now, they’re speaking out.

The movies of Clint Eastwood.

The future of homo sapiens.

On the tortured afterlives of cast members.

A history of the war between Amazon and the book industry.

Investigating the origins of the ice cream truck sensation.

The empty promises and empty buildings of Foxconn’s Wisconsin debacle.

Caliphate and the perils of reporting online.

Reckoning with the legacy of the Hawks Nest Tunnel disaster.

A Little League season in Camden, New Jersey, where the murder rate is 17 times the national average.

INTERVIEWER: You once said the novel is dead. VIDAL: That was a joke.

One year ago the journalist Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and never walked out. This is what happened.

Life inside Za’atari, a camp for Syrian refugees just across the Jordanian border, where “the dispossession is absolute. Everyone has lost his country, his home, his equilibrium. Most have lost a family member or a friend. What is left is a kind of theatrical pride, the necessary performance of will.”

“This is a story about how the future gets weird.”

San Francisco’s forgotten serial killer.

Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, on the eve of the release of The Social Network, believed to be a deeply unflattering portrait of him and the genesis of his company.

On the Birthright Israel program, which sends young American Jews on a tour of Israel free of charge, thanks to massive funding from both the Israeli government and philanthropists like the conservative casino magnate Sheldon Adelson.

A new era is dawning for Birthright. What began as an identity booster has become an ideology machine, pumping out not only Jewish baby-makers but defenders of Israel. Or that’s the hope.

Prenatal testing is changing who gets born and who doesn’t. This is just the beginning.

Behind the scenes, a small team of FBI agents spent years trying to solve a stubborn mystery — whether officials from Saudi Arabia, one of Washington’s closest allies, were involved in the worst terror attack in U.S. history. This is their story.