How Amazon’s self-publishing arm became a haven for white supremacists.

“It’s like I’m risking my life for a dollar.”

An American family’s struggle for student loan redemption.

Nick now claims that he was searching for methamphetamine for his entire life, and when he tried it for the first time, as he says, ''That was that.'' It would have been no easier to see him strung out on heroin or cocaine, but as every parent of a methamphetamine addict comes to learn, this drug has a unique, horrific quality.

Dorothy Stratten was the focus of the dreams and ambitions of three men. One killed her.

Being exonerated for a crime you didn’t commit is a hard-won triumph. But how can the state make up for what you’ve lost while in prison?

“We still have retrograde ideas about how pregnant women should feel, and we need to revise them — not only for depressed women but for all women.”

In 2005, the prisoner who had set the U.S. penal system record for years in solitary confinement was moved to what’s called “the Alcatraz of the Rockies”—a jail in Colorado built just for him.

Barry Jones has spent the last 22 years on death row for the murder of a 4-year-old girl. Prosecutors have fought against reopening his case even as the basis for his conviction has fallen apart.

For years, the candidate for Kansas governor has defended towns that passed anti-immigration ordinances. The towns have lost big — but Kobach has fared considerably better.

"It is one thing for you to get a correct image, and it is another thing for me to spoil my life."

Stare at the game long enough and the distance between everything—players, league, game, court, self, other—begins to collapse. Everything becomes a metaphor for everything else, the league and your life each generating infinite layers of meaning for the other.

Everything I had going against me he had going for him. Us young Black dudes who were slanging were hated, hunted and haunted for our role in the drug war. He was praised and honored and rewarded with overtime.

After years of outsourcing, many essential staff work for the NHS without receiving its benefits. In one London hospital, the fight is on for a better deal.

On “soldiers for credibility” and the tug of war over truth.

Elegy for Aleppo.

On leaving New York for Portland.

On serving time for crimes not yet committed.

Calculating restitution for victims of child pornography.

When there are too few jobs for an entire generation.

On Ambien and the search for the next blockbuster insomnia drug.

On Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu’s lust for blood-sport.

On being—and playing for—Lady Vols basketball coach Pat Summitt.

Searching for the reclusive band’s studio in Düsseldorf.