How the mind behind Lemmings and Grand Theft Auto plans to push gaming further.

A trip to Râmnicu Vâlcea, a town of 120,000 where the primary (and lucrative) industry is Internet scams.

“At first, there is only a little sound, a metallic ping, almost a click.”

The Supreme Court justice on gay rights, the problem with consensus, and the Devil.

When the music was real, but the bands were fake.

A profile of Ken Griffey, Jr., six years after he last played a baseball game.

Are megafarmers Lynda and Stewart Resnick visionary philanthropists or shrewd water barons?

The story of a home invasion, a torture session, and one lawyer who nearly killed another.

“He kissed me directly on the lips. I thought, ‘Oh my God, gross.’”

On chemo.

An interview with the founding editor of the New York Review of Books, who died Monday.

Searching for the truth about a site known for busting myths.

“I always walk away from an interview — no matter how well it went — knowing that there’s so much that I don’t know about that person.”

Immigrants from Africa and the iron gateways of mass deportation.

Instead, they got scorched.

A slick-talking con artist turned an innocent brother and sister into his personal slaves.

On the ethics of putting the internet’s spotlight on a neighborhood restaurant.

He never saw it coming.

Is the genetically engineered chestnut tree an act of ecological restoration or a threat to wild forests?

How killing by remote control has changed the way we fight.

Was she the reason he was alive today?

She tore up a picture of the pope. Then her life came apart. These days, she just wants to make music.

Why a Nova Scotia community is still searching for the killer of a beloved farmer thirty years later.

During the pandemic, people from the author’s hometown got sucked into QAnon and the Q-adjacent “Save the Children” movement.

What I learned about rich people, conspiracy, “genius,” Ghislaine, stand-up comedy, and evil from 2,000 phone calls.