A profile of Costa Rica’s most famous bull, who is responsible for two riders’ deaths and a brand of craft beer.

The hunt for a secretive network of British men obsessed with accumulating and cataloguing the eggs of rare birds.

The story of a device that delivers electric shocks to students at a school for special needs.

A profile of Kermit Oliver, a reclusive, critically acclaimed artist who designs scarves for Hermès and works nights at the Waco post office.

“She scrolls, she waits. For that little notification box to appear.”

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

An interview with a Mexican-born American attorney who defended and eventually smuggled for the cartels in the ’90s.

Searching for Puddles the Clown, whose cover of Lorde’s “Royals” made him an Internet star.

Immigrant farmers are flocking to the poultry industry – only to become 21st-century sharecroppers for companies like Tyson.

On the producer Timbaland, then best known for collaborations with Missy Elliott, Aaliyah, and Ginuwine.

The life of Phyllis Frye, a pioneer in the fight for transgender rights.

For decades, airlines failed to turn a profit despite having a monopoly on the sky. This year they’re expected to make billions. Here’s why.

What the first-sale doctrine means for the future of copyright.

The best-selling young novelist lay dead in a trash-strewn cottage on Ireland’s rugged coast for over a week before she was discovered.

David Carr’s advice for the 2014 graduating class at the UC Berkeley School of Journalism.

The young people fighting for democracy will be back.

After an election deadlock that held the country hostage for months, two former rivals confront Afghanistan’s patronage and corruption.

Even for a high-powered “A-Type,” living on forged documentation is an endurance test.

Lonnie Sue Johnson is an artist who can’t retain a memory for longer than a minute or two.

Caitlin Curran was fired from WNYC for attending an Occupy Wall Street protest. The author explains why her boss was wrong.

How an up-and-coming Boston surgeon became best known for leaving a patient on the operating table while he skipped out to cash a check.

The making of the “five-thousand-page, five-volume book, known formally as the Dictionary of American Regional English and colloquially just as DARE”:

What joking names do you have for an alarm clock? For a toothpick? For a container for kitchen scraps? Or an indoor toilet? Or women’s underwear? When a woman divides her hair into three strands and twists them together, you say she is_____her hair? What words do you have to describe people’s legs if they’re noticeably bent, or uneven, or not right? What do you call the mark on the skin where somebody has sucked it hard and brought blood to the surface?

A profile of Robert Caro, who’s been working on a biography on Lyndon Johnson for nearly 40 years.