The events leading up to the botched execution of Clayton Lockett.

The plight of the uninsured in a red state.

The unsolved mystery of the soldier who died in the watchtower.

The architecture of the modern web poses grave threats to humanity.

The limited vision of the news gurus.

The story of the Grenfell Tower fire.

On the confines of masculinity.

On the lost-children stories of Australia.

“There’s always room for another story. There’s always room for another tune.”

On the insane business of bottled water.

A history of the celebrity profile.

The life and death of the racehorse Secretariat.

The true story of the first Thanksgiving.

The highest-ranking CIA officer to be convicted of spying passes the tricks of the trade along to his son.

An hour-by-hour account of the explosion and rescue effort on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico.

On the history, internal culture, and scandals of the consulting giant.

The plot to erode the key legislative gains of the civil rights era.

Inside the world of “Wooks,” the loner-craftsmen behind the coming marijuana-concentrate boom.

The crowdfunded phone of the future was a multimillion-dollar scam

The barbaric brutalization of Abner Louima and the tragic fate of a handful of flawed Brooklyn cops.

More than 15% of Detroit’s adults have asthma, and 82% of black students go to schools in the most polluted parts of the city.

A profile of Larry King at the height of his fame and on the heels of his sixth divorce.

Three decades ago, Mohamed Siad Barre, commander of the Supreme Revolutionary Council, head of the politburo of the Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party and the last ruler of a functional Somali state, built vast concrete buildings all over Mogadishu. The beautiful city on the coast of the Indian Ocean, with its Arabic and Indian architecture, winding alleyways and Italian colonial-era villas, was dominated by these monuments. They were Third World incarnations of Soviet architecture, exuding power, stability and strength. The buildings – like the literacy campaigns, massive public works programmes and a long war against neighbouring Ethiopia in the late 1970s and early 1980s – were supposed to reflect the wisdom and authority of the dictator.

Inside Rebecca West’s vast Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, an eerily timeless travelogue of the Balkans written on the eve of WWI.

Taibbi on the Tea Party. “After lengthy study of the phenomenon, I’ve concluded that the whole miserable narrative boils down to one stark fact: They’re full of shit.”