On trying out for the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Why all soccer fans should root for Holland to lose to Spain.

The search for the genetic distinction that allows certain animals, humans included, to be domesticated.

Meet the man responsible for third-wave coffee—and the Frappuccino.

A eulogy for a movement.

Hundreds of people have gone missing on remote public lands. Who’s responsible for finding them?

A prescient case for W. Mark Felt as journalism’s most famous leaker.

Why did Yousef Muslet face life in prison for an everyday gesture?

How the hospitality world rents space for physicians to train.

Wikipedia entry for “Traction Park,” central New Jersey’s most dangerous mid-1980’s amusement park.

Was Dr. Alexander Mishkin, Hero of Russia, responsible for the Skripal poisoning?

Johnson & Johnson knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder.

A visit to America’s leading trade show for state violence.

How to pay for your food, diapers, and beers through ad fraud.

The search for the perfect hot dog—by way of haute cuisine.

How Big Oil and Big Soda kept a global environmental calamity a secret for decades.

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.