The story of one man’s encounter with fate.

What’s the future of NYC real estate?

The writer, deaf since birth, on the intricacies of reading lips.

The strange existence of the accused Internet pirate as he battles the U.S. government.

On vandwelling in the wake of the Great Recession.

One famous critic (Adler) takes another (Pauline Kael) to task for a collection of reviews that is “without Kael- or Simon-like exaggeration, not simply, jarringly, piece by piece, line by line, and without interruption, worthless.”

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

How the truth still eludes the investigation of the killing of four boys in Joypur, which sparked a bloody riot and massive displacement.

At work with the scientists standing on the precipice of a grand unified theory of the universe. Or failure.

The rise of an amazing optical corporation and the future of our eyes.

Heather Morris’s bestselling novels ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz’ and ‘Cilka’s Journey’, and the problem of truth in historical fiction.

On the history of content moderation and what it means for the future of free speech.

The unlikely ascent of A.Q. Khan, the scientist who gave Pakistan the Bomb, and his suspicious fall from grace.

The profile of a crime syndicate which dominates the European cocaine trade.

The lives of the Indians who were swallowed in the Bhopal gas cloud, thirty years later.

What does satire do? What should we expect of it? Is it crucial to Western culture that we be free to produce it?

She calls claiming to be Amy Pascal, Kathleen Kennedy, or some other powerful woman in entertainment. She knows personal details about her mark as well as the woman she is impersonating.

She offers work, then sends them—photographers, make-up artists, soldiers—around the world to bilk them out of modest amounts of cash.

A profile of Laura Poitras.

On the film The Act of Killing, in which the actual perpetrators of a 1966-1966 Indonesian genocide recreate their own actions for the camera, and what it can tell us about our memories of the Vietnam War.

Throughout 2015 and 2016, amid a series of conversations I had socially with gay and bisexual men about chemsex, new, darker elements to this scene began to emerge; details from unconnected participants that mirrored each other – the same incidents, the same crimes, sometimes even the same culprits. Together they formed a picture: that beneath the surface reports about chemsex – the endless hedonism, the irresistibly intense sex – there is a much blacker sea, unmapped.

Seventy years after three of the bloodiest days in U.S. history, the battle continues to bring the missing men home.

How precious maps, books, and art vanished from the Pittsburgh archive over the course of 25 years.

On 21st-century prospectors:

Shawn Ryan is the king of a new Yukon gold rush, the biggest since the legendary Klondike stampede a century ago. Behind this stampede is the rising price of gold, and behind this price is fear.

The $200 billion industry behind the Snuggie.

On 30 years of Long Island politics.