On the dying city of Port Arthur, Texas, and one man’s fight to save it.

What it means to become a superpower while three quarters of the population lives on less than fifty cents per day—four scenes from India in transition.

The story of the Caughnawagas, “the most footloose Indians in North America,” and their gradual assimilation.

The original article on Billy Beane and the Oakland A’s, published a month before the release of Moneyball.

Fourteen other tornadoes hit Georgia on April 27 and 28. This was not the record — that would be twenty, during Tropical Storm Alberto in 1994. But it was one of the worst twenty-four-hour periods in the history of the state. Tornadoes hit Trenton, Cherokee Valley, south of LaGrange, and Covington; killed seven people in a neighborhood in Catoosa County, swept through Ringgold, and killed two more — a disabled man and his caregiver — in a double-wide trailer on the far end of Spalding County. Those tornadoes got all the attention. The Vaughn tornado didn’t even warrant an article in a major newspaper. No one talked about Vaughn. The only way for a person to really find out about it was to drive past.

How Timothy Patrick Barrus, a white writer of gay erotica, reinvented himself a (wildly successful) Native American memoirist.

Inside the five-year (so far) production of the Ilya Khrzhanovsky film Dau:

Khrzhanovsky came up with the idea of the Institute not long after preproduction on Dau began in 2006. He wanted a space where he could elicit the needed emotions from his cast in controlled conditions, twenty-four hours a day. The set would be a panopticon. Microphones would hide in lighting fixtures (as they would in many a lamp in Stalin's USSR), allowing Khrzhanovsky to shoot with multiple film cameras from practically anywhere — through windows, skylights, and two-way mirrors. The Institute's ostensible goal was to re-create '50s and '60s Moscow, home to Dau's subject, Lev Landau. A Nobel Prize–winning physicist, Landau significantly advanced quantum mechanics with his theories of diamagnetism, superfluidity, and superconductivity. He also tapped epic amounts of ass.

The low-key swingers of sleepy Amarillo, Texas find themselves relentlessly harassed by a militant Christian group.

The battle of Wanat—the most scrutinized engagement in the Afghanistan War—seen from three perspectives: a dead soldier, his father, and his commander.

The inside story of how the city, broke and bleak and nearing the edge, saved itself.

A report from the Central African Republic, where "acts of extraordinary cruelty have become commonplace."

A brutal assault and the struggle for justice at the University of Virginia.

Note 12/5/14: Rolling Stone has stated that they now doubt details of the facts reported in "A Rape on Campus."

More information is available in T. Rees Shapiro's "U-Va. Fraternity to Rebut Claims of Gang Rape in Rolling Stone" from The Washington Post.

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An oral history of The Right Stuff.

An army of Western luxury-lifestyle purveyors flock to China to teach the country’s new billionaires how to act rich.

Mel and Norma Gabler of Longview, Texas, want to tell your children what to learn in school.

Seth Rogen, Amy Pascal, and the inside story of Sony’s hacking saga.

The selfie may have ended any hope of resurrecting New York’s nightlife.

The controversial owner of the Dallas World Aquarium once nearly caused a riot over pygmy sloths.

A drag pageant pioneer dropped out of the public eye after the 1960s. What happened to her?

Truancy is punishable by fines, probation, and in some cases throwing parents in prison. Does any of that really keep kids in school?

Robert Marbut is in the business of helping cities criminalize homelessness.

The sugar beet harvest in North Dakota draws a modern version of the American hobo.

A portrait of a comedian in the moment just before he becomes huge.

In 1992, a magazine story introduced the world to the photographs of Sally Mann. Here, she responds to the firestorm that article produced.

Notes from a never-finished biography of the neurologist, humanist and writer.