A diary of the author’s visit to Palestine.

Investigating the unsolved murder of Malcolm X’s grandson.

Who is ‘Tawnya Grilth’?

Is Dr. Drew’s “Celebrity Rehab” therapy or tabloid voyeurism?

Finding Culture, with a capital-c, is not as simple as just leaving a city.

What if everything we know about dark matter is totally wrong?

Is all water created equal? It depends on who you believe.

Is Palantir’s crystal ball just smoke and mirrors?

“She has no theories, for example, to explain why she, of all people, felt unburdened by the unspoken rules marking certain subjects off limits for children, or why, for that matter, she has that particular gift, that ability to recall the emotional experiences of adolescence, the confusion, the longing, the rivalries — the memories, in other words, that most of us try to bury as quickly and deeply as we can.”

A profile of the man who ran Jeb Bush’s $118 million super-PAC as he cleans out his office. Had Murphy been legally allowed to talk to the candidate during the election, here’s what he would have said: “What the fuck were we thinking?”

How the island paradise of Seychelles became a magnet for money launderers and tax dodgers.

“What transpired in the streets appeared to be a kind of municipal version of shock and awe.”

The strange case of Kip Litton, road race fraud.

A law professor’s interpretation of the 2004 hit.

Why a type of gasoline may be responsible for periods of increased crime in the U.S. and abroad.

The story of 15-year-old Audrie Pott, who took her own life after nude photos of her were circulated at school.

A tale of ambition, motherhood and political mythmaking in the race for governor of Texas.

A profile of Jill Abramson from her first weeks as executive editor of The New York Times.

On public radio and the emerging genre of shows inspired by This American Life.

The haunted past of Amy Bishop, a University of Alabama neurobiologist who shot six colleagues during a staff meeting.

Long before the likes of Kim Kardashian, Marie Bashkirtseff sought to secure celebrity through curation of “personal brand.”

How warnings of AI doom gave way to primal fear of primates posting.

The documentary filmmakers from Longbow Productions said they wanted to tell the story of the Bundy Family and their standoff with the government. Their cameras were real, but the people behind them were undercover FBI agents.

In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was the preoccupation of a few half-mad recluses. Searching the library of my college, I found Marx, Lenin, and Mao, but no Strauss, Voegelin, Hayek, or Friedman. I found every variety of socialist monthly, weekly, or quarterly, but not a single journal that confessed to being conservative.

A young Brit goes against the political grain.