How two Italian teenagers hacked the Soviet space program and may have heard the dying breaths of a lost cosmonaut.

A interview with John Pistole, head of the TSA.

A profile of Lil Yachty.

In family court, judges must decide whether the risks at home outweigh the risks of separating a family.

A series of conversations with the WikiLeaks founder about his role in the 2016 presidential election.

“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.

“Places like the New York Times, Le Monde and the Washington Post are not given to elevating editors—of any gender—who would accept anything other than the highest of standards. As in tough, demanding, challenging. But there’s no doubt that many find this off-putting and threatening from a certain kind of woman. Like me.”

Tens of thousands of people every year are sent to jail based on the results of a $2 roadside drug test. Widespread evidence shows that these tests routinely produce false positives. Why are police departments and prosecutors still using them?

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

GQ moved up the release of this Charlie Sheen profile: ”The fucking AA shit. The sobriety shit. It was always for other people. I just wanted to get a job back and get enough money to tell everybody to go fuck themselves and then roll like Errol Flynn and Frank Sinatra—the good parts of those guys.”

A group of misfit boys from the fringes of Las Vegas form a clique. Then, with murky motives, they decide to murder one of their own and bury him in a desert pit.

“Fiction writers are good people, usually. There’s a lot of pretenders, but I haven’t met a lot of sons of bitches.”

John MacNeil was convicted by the state of Massachusetts of second-degree murder. He was given a life sentence. He escaped. He was caught. Through an incredible feat of jailhouse lawyering, he somehow got himself paroled and exiled to Canada. Then he came home.

Can neuroscience take the pain out of painful memories?

Control of the Senate could hinge on Black voters—and on an ambitious effort to get them to the polls in the largest numbers ever for the Jan. 5 runoff elections.

He is 69. He is no longer a virtuoso politician. He has been marginalized within his wife’s campaign. Nobody knows what what his role will be if she wins, but everyone agrees that he’s desperate to find out.