“Peril is generational for black people in America—and incarceration is our current mechanism for ensuring that the peril continues.”

Is a well-received work of William Faulkner scholarship a hoax?

Is being a war correspondent worth the risk?

Is the anonymous, reclusive inventor of Bitcoin this 64-year-old man in Los Angeles?

“The most important fast food restaurant in America is a radical burger joint in Watts.”

Sissel Tolaas is a star in the world of smells. Her methods are not always subtle.

The planet’s tallest animal is in far greater danger than people might think.

“Uncertainty, it has been shown, is more painful than certain physical pain.”

Beyond the fact that he lacked a pulse, little is known about the man found on an Adelaide beach in 1948.

Computer scientist tycoon Robert Mercer is at the heart of a shockingly well-funded propaganda network.

Amid an historic glut the cheese market, a secretive, government-sponsored entity is putting the stuff anywhere it can.

Bruce Fleming is known for being a chauvinistic, egoistic loudmouth–but firing him has been a lot harder than the Pentagon thought.

He planned to write a memoir, The Life of a Migrant. Its central thesis: The American Dream is a lie.

An orgy of free song-sharing seems to be exactly the kind of thing that the horrified labels would quickly clamp down on. But they appear to be starting to accept that their fortunes rest with the geeks. Or at least they’re trying to talk a good game. “I’m not part of the past—I’m part of the future,” says Lucian Grainge, chair and CEO of the world’s biggest label, Universal Music Group. “There’s a new philosophy, a new way of thinking.”

A novel interrogation technique is transforming the art of detective work: Shut up and let the suspect do the talking.

How Paul Tollett gets the world’s biggest acts to perform in the California desert.

The money has dried up, the models are broken and “there are simply many, many more high-priced lawyers today than there is high-priced legal work.” On the end of an era.

Brian Windhorst was one of the first reporters to cover LeBron James. He was there in high school. There at the draft. There in Cleveland. And now he’s there in Miami, though the relationship is far from what it used to be.

The story of three months spent training reporters in Saudi Arabia, where the press is far from free. “I suspected that behind the closed gates of Saudi society there was a social revolution in the making. With some guidance, I thought, these journalists could help inspire change.”

The implosion of the daily fantasy industry is a bro-classic tale of hubris, recklessness, political naïveté and a kill-or-be-killed culture.

For 10 years, Libre—an arm of the Koch family’s Americans for Prosperity—has been working to foster conservatism in Hispanic communities. Now, the group is going all-in on Georgia’s Senate runoffs.

“Has anybody in Westchester County ever called the New York Times his or her ‘friend’? I realize that the rest of America, in its post-Katrina fatigue, is pretty tired of hearing New Orleanians, the city’s acolytes and defenders, always carrying on about how it’s the most unique city in America, but, the fact is, it is. Get over it.

And so, too, is its newspaper.”

Why domestic violence is even worse if the abuser is a cop.

A visit to Albania to watch Henry Marsh perform his pioneering surgery where the patient is kept awake during the removal of a tumor and the “brain is stimulated with an electric probe, so that the surgeon can see if and how the patient reacts.”

The aforementioned “twist” is that while dinner is free for the black residents of the neighborhood, the prices for white visitors are listed on a pledge form at their seats: $100 for one piece of chicken; $1,000 for four pieces. For a whole bird, with sides, you must donate the deed to a property in North Nashville.