A Houston man allegedly tries to hire several hit men to kill his wife. Each fails miserably. It becomes the talk of the town.

On the surprising radicalism of library music – “music that has been composed and recorded for commercial purposes.”

“Calça de veludo ou bunda de fora.” Why Neymar, one of the world’s best talents hasn’t taken the money and run.

The story of Brownie Wise, the woman who made Tupperware a household name.

An interview with Clay Shirky on “why no medium has ever survived the indifference of 25-year-olds.”

An excerpt from a new biography explores the trio of tragedies that struck Dahl’s family just as his career was taking off.

Anxiety, weight, general well-being—how the first nine months determine the rest of your life.

Sex in the NBA in the wake of Magic Johnson’s HIV announcement.

The untold story of Napoleon Hill, who practically invented the self-help scam through his 1937 book Think and Grow Rich.

How Montana became home to the highest concentration of hate groups in the nation.

On the life at sea of Henk De Velde, who has circumnavigated the globe six times.

Inside the Tacoma Northwest Detention Center, “an opaque system that literally disappears people” accused of immigrating illegally.

Retracing the steps of the most devastating wildfire in California history.

A visit to the set of Lost Highway, minus an actual interview with the director.

The secret diary of Nina Simone.

On growing up in Hollywood, the cost of beating Oprah at the Oscars, and why Jack Nicholson doesn’t act anymore.

A year in the lives of Abigail Spanberger and Ayanna Pressley.

On the author of How the Irish Became White.

On the divisive narrative of “outside agitators” and how labor history can help guide the protest movement.

Amid coronavirus outbreaks, migrants face the starkest of choices: Risking their lives in U.S. detention or returning home to the dangers they fled.

Lawyer Richard Luthmann was a Roger Stone-worshipping member of the Staten Island political scene. Then the fake Facebook posts began.

In 1974,  a pair of four-year-old cousins wandered into the jungle near India’s border with Myanmar. The boy was found five days later, temporarily incapable of speech. The girl was gone. For decades, stories echoed through villages of a “wild-looking woman,” sometimes striding beside a tiger. Thirty-eight years later, she returned.

“When I’m in Nigeria, I find myself looking at the passive, placid faces of the people standing at the bus stops. They are tired after a day’s work, and thinking perhaps of the long commute back home, or of what to make for dinner. I wonder to myself how these people, who surely love life, who surely love their own families, their own children, could be ready in an instant to exact a fatal violence on strangers.”

Rosie grew up in a succession of decrepit houses in South London with one man and a rotating cast of women, who claimed that they had found her on the streets as an infant. The man, Aravindan Balakrishnan—Comrade Bala, as he wanted to be called—was the head of the household. He instructed the women to deny Rosie’s existence to outsiders, and forbade them from comforting her when she cried.