In a windowless room just outside of New York City, overworked air traffic controllers manage the world’s most-trafficked piece of sky—until all those blips on the screen become too much.

Thirty years ago, Elizabeth Haysom and Jens Soering fell in love as freshman at the University of Virginia. It was the same year Haysom’s parents were brutally murdered. Each says the other committed the crime.

In a time when no one agrees on anything, some vague consensus can be found around the idea that more American manufacturing would be good. Rarely does someone say publicly, “Actually, I think there should be less American manufacturing.” (Although it happens.)

A maverick war correspondent, Hemingway’s third wife was the only woman at D-Day and saw the liberation of Dachau. Her husband wanted her home in his bed.

A profile of Justin Timberlake:

This need to succeed, to become his generation’s multi-talented Sammy Davis Jr., is part of what makes him appealing to filmmakers. “I needed someone who could be a Frank Sinatra figure, someone who could walk into the room and command all the attention,” says David Fincher, of casting Timberlake as Sean Parker, the Facebook investor and rogue, in The Social Network. “I didn’t want someone who would just say, ‘I know how to play groovy.’ You can’t fake that stuff. That’s the problem with making movies about a rock star—actors have spent their lives auditioning and getting rejected, and rock stars haven’t.”

“There are people who are wired to be skeptics and there are people who are wired to be optimists. And I can tell you, at least from the last 20 years, if you bet on the side of the optimists, generally you’re right.’

The fight over an alleged Israeli war crime.

A week in the life of Naomi and Spencer Haskell.

Newton Murray got his first job in 1926. He’s seldom missed a day of work since.

How a sexual assault case in Idaho involving refugee children morphed into an anti-refugee frenzy.

With prices spiralling, poachers are digging for ginseng in the North Carolina hills.

“And yet we live still in Cheney’s world. All around us are the consequences of those decisions.”

The story of a young man on the run in the slum he dreams of escaping.

On the difficult challenges faced by an auteur in Nigeria’s burgeoning Nollywood film economy.

On the frontlines of extinction in the Gulf of California, where the vaquita faces its final days.

The traditional home is under renovation. Can people find meaning in groups?

Scandal, conspiracy, and cover-ups in the theft of the “Irish Crown Jewels” from Dublin Castle.

The human lives lost in exchange for cheaper goods.

The story of twelve men trapped in a West Virginia mine, as remembered by the lone survivor.

What really happened between the plaintiffs in Lawrence vs. Texas, the case that ended anti-sodomy laws?