“I have drunkenly sexually assaulted or raped women—the exact number of which I am currently determining.”

A profile of the irrepressible Trump campaign foreign-policy adviser.

The story of one journalist’s giant salary and why his company could no longer pay it.

A new historical inquiry into the murder of Elwood Higginbotham offers a chance to confront the past.

Inside the trailer park known as Little Mexico in Norwalk, Ohio in the wake of an ICE raid that separated children from their parents.

“I admit it,” she says, in her hotel room. “I’m a troll. I’m the queen of the fucking trolls.”

Can Jerry Falwell Jr. build Liberty University’s football team into the evangelical version of Notre Dame?

An outsider artist’s odyssey to the center of his daughter’s life.

Oomba was a startup designed to make a lot of money from the games industry. Instead, everyone played each other.

The Brooklyn rapper, fresh out of prison on parole, talks about life on the inside and where he goes next.

“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.

On the oeuvre of Glenn Beck:

"The undisputed high point of Beck’s tenure in Baltimore was an elaborate prank built around a nonexistent theme park. The idea was to run a promotional campaign for the fictional grand opening of the world’s first air-conditioned underground amusement park, called Magicland. According to Beck and Gray, it was being completed just outside Baltimore. During the build-up, the two created an intricate and convincing radio world of theme-park jingles and promotions, which were rolled out in a slow buildup to the nonexistent park’s grand opening… On the day Magicland was supposed to throw open its air-conditioned doors, Beck and Gray took calls from enraged listeners who tried to find the park and failed. Among the disappointed and enraged was a woman who had canceled a no-refund cruise to attend the event." — from Alexander Zaitchik’s Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance

In the wake of revolution, Libyans envision their future.

A profile of the almost-president.

The possibilities and pitfalls of massive open online courses (MOOCs).

The Yale professor suspected of murdering his student.

The laundry wars of Silicon Valley.

The story of a call center virtuoso.

An essay about phone dials and a response to the end of blogging.

Debates surrounding physician-assisted dying in the U.S.

A mother on her autistic child’s progression and regression.

The legacy of a phantom bluesman.

On hit-and-run deaths, and in particular, that of Tiara Nichelle Jackson on the Beltway.