Cycling through relapse and recovery, and the industry that enables both.

Whenever the black dress came out, Jessica Weisman’s mother knew she was “going after the Jewish people again.”

On the bohemian poet’s hidden career as a prolific copywriter.

“I wanted to be prepared for the worst nature could throw at me. But the real threat turned out to be human.”

An investigation into how the Church moves its money.

It wasn’t until death rates began to soar that society began to take the outbreak seriously enough.

To understand the state’s urban-rural divide, start by looking at Yamhill County’s proposed walking trail.

A profile of the comedian, who died Tuesday.

The story of imprisoned boxer James Scott, who contended for the light heavyweight title by staging fights inside Rahway prison.

Drones, renditions, and underground prisons; inside the war on terror’s African front.

In the eighteen years since the infamous “Black Hawk Down” incident in Mogadishu, US policy on Somalia has been marked by neglect, miscalculation and failed attempts to use warlords to build indigenous counterterrorism capacity, many of which have backfired dramatically. At times, largely because of abuses committed by Somali militias the CIA has supported, US policy has strengthened the hand of the very groups it purports to oppose and inadvertently aided the rise of militant groups, including the Shabab.

The author expounds on culture and crime in the early 90s:

Yes, I know there are sensational tabloid crimes everywhere and the closeness to the Manhattan media nexus tends to magnify everything. But even so, that was always true. There's just no denying that something has changed in the past decade, that, as our bard Billy Joel sings on his new album, there's "lots more to read about, Lolita and suburban lust." But why? Why is this Island different from all other islands? And why are so many Long Islanders suddenly running amok?

On being gay in the military, three years before Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell:

A vast majority of those interviewed had been interrogated at least once, and what they described was nearly the same. They said those under suspicion of homosexuality suffer bright lights in their eyes and sometimes handcuffs on their wrists, warnings that their parents will be informed or their hometown newspapers called, threats that their stripes will be torn off and they will pushed through the gates of the base before a jeering crowd.

A pilgrimage to J.D. Salinger’s New Hampshire home:

The silence surrounding this place is not just any silence. It is the work of a lifetime. It is the work of renunciation and determination and expensive litigation. It is a silence of self-exile, cunning, and contemplation. In its own powerful, invisible way, the silence is in itself an eloquent work of art. It is the Great Wall of Silence J.D. Salinger has built around himself.

On a childhood fascination with the mid-18th century battle.

When jobs vanish, Southern men find new ways to contribute.

A profile of the D.O.C., the rapper’s rapper, who ghostwrote for Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg.

Why almost everything we think we know about the iconic photo from Robinson’s first game is wrong.

The rise and fall and rise of Hill flack Kurt Bardella, and what it says about D.C. culture.

A dispatch from Eloise Woods, a natural burial ground where bodies are consigned directly to the earth.

The murky legacy of the former Attorney General.

The coordinated government attack on queer Russia.

The intertwining histories of two men who defined twentieth century European style.

A ride-along with the guys tasked with demolishing the city’s 10,000 “abandoned, godforsaken homes.”