Life inside a provincial Russian drug den. Originally appeared in Russky Reporter.

The life of Reverend Charles Moore, who died by self-immolation in the parking lot of a Texas strip mall.

Three men are exonerated, almost 40 years after a 12-year-old’s coerced testimony led to their murder convictions.

Women who kill their newborns usually claim to have been in denial about their pregnancies. Can you carry a child to term without realizing it?

The short-lived literary career of Breece DʼJ Pancake and his roadmap to a world of oppressive poverty.

When should a football player, and in particular one who has suffered three concussions in 10 months, retire?

Can a company best known for explaining Kanye West lyrics and telling Warren Buffett to do unseemly things actually annotate the world?

A friendship born of mutual interest in birding stretches across the Berlin Wall.

“When constant revisionism and re-invention is under way, what does it profit a biographer to drag the weary ‘facts’ before us?”

It’s a mess inside the network – and Brian Williams may still come out on top.

What happened to one of the most hated basketball players in NCAA history after playing a single season at Georgetown.

On Juliana Buhring, a former cult member who became the first woman to bike around the world.

An essay on its history and future during a time when “gayness, we are told, is over.”

High school dropouts are descending on San Francisco with nothing more than a backpacks full of clothes and ideas.

A vegan sets out to see if there’s an ethical, sustainable way to eat fish in 2015.

The island of Coiba off the coast of Panama is both a nature preserve and an open-air prison.

Before embarking on dangerous rock climbs, Matt Samet would use whiskey to wash down powerful prescription tranquilizers. A first-person account of extreme addiction.

The battle to contain the Asian tiger mosquito–one suburban, above-ground pool at a time.

An excerpt from a new biography explores the trio of tragedies that struck Dahl’s family just as his career was taking off.

Thirty years ago, few people had ever heard of ADD. ‘Early onset depression’ might become a common diagnosis long before 2040.

A writer struggles to understand, among other things, why humans do more for whooping cranes than for themselves.

A trip to the Famous Poets Society convention/contest in Reno.

The first article in a two-part history of the Educational Testing Service, the institution behind the SAT.

Its editors still live in different cities, still work different careers, and still treat Boing Boing as a (lucrative) hobby.

A profile of Rafael Pérez, an infamously corrupt LAPD officer and the inspiration behind the Vic Mackey character on The Shield.