How cars have become weapons at protests, and why it is likely to continue.

My wife is not a terrorist.

A glimpse into the life and death of a soldier who committed suicide while on duty in Afghanistan:

The Army recently announced that it was charging eight soldiers — an officer and seven enlisted men — in connection with Danny Chen’s death. Five of the eight have been charged with involuntary manslaughter and negligent homicide, and the coming court-martial promises a fuller picture of the harrowing abuse Chen endured. But even the basic details are enough to terrify: What could be worse than being stuck at a remote outpost, in the middle of a combat zone, tormented by your superiors, the very same people who are supposed to be looking out for you? And why did a nice, smart kid from Chinatown, who’d always shied from conflict and confrontation, seek out an environment ruled by the laws of aggression?

A 22,000-word breakdown of Kubrick’s “odyssey portraying the span of millennia.”

The dissolution of Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Deng’s marriage amidst evidence of her affairs with Tony Blair and Eric Schmidt.

A memory of interviewing the late great songwriter Townes Van Zandt shortly before his death.

From a small Ohio town to Afghanistan, a portrait of the perpetrator of a massacre.

How group of misfits in Texas including Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings snubbed Nashville and brought the hippies and rednecks together. An oral history of outlaw country.

[Part 1 of 2] The story behind this spring’s spate of retributive murders in Southwest D.C.

On a book of photographs shot by Leni Riefenstahl in the 1950s and 1960s depicting an African tribe.

How the culture of academia helped Amy Bishop, a University of Alabama scientist who murdered colleagues during a faculty meeting, fall apart.

How three friends and a team of frat brothers made a fortune smuggling people along the most heavily patrolled stretch of highway in Texas.

A profile of philosopher Timothy Morton, who wants humanity to give up some of its core beliefs.

The rise of Mike Pence’s chief of staff Nick Ayers and what it reveals about post-Citizens United politics.

On the case of young Joseph Hall, who was convicted last month of murdering his dad.

On Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik and the rise of Islamophobia in Norway.

[Part 2 of 2] The story behind this spring’s spate of retributive murders in Southwest D.C.

A profile of Tyshawn Jones, “one of the most exciting skateboarders in a generation.”

The life of Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger, who died from COVID at age 52.

The West Virginia senator reaps big financial rewards from a network of coal companies with grim records of pollution, safety violations, and death.

On Westmont College, a “feeder school” to the upper ranks of the Christian conservative movement.

Writing a “stunt memoir” in the waterpark capital of the world.

With the first on the scene of the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 disaster.

On the wandering career and sweet baritone voice of Art Laboe, the DJ behind the phrase “oldies but goodies.”

The battle of Wanat—the most scrutinized engagement in the Afghanistan War—seen from three perspectives: a dead soldier, his father, and his commander.