100 miles, 24 hours.

The backstory of “The Duke in His Domain,” Truman Capote’s 1957 New Yorker profile of Marlon Brando.

In 1945, a fire tore through the home of George and Jennie Sodder. Four children escaped; five vanished.

A lesson in ethics.

A generation that has seen inestimable violence comes of age in Juarez.

A 27-year old reporter is kidnapped in Somalia and held hostage for over a year.

What the CIA really knew about Robert Levinson, a retired FBI agent who disappeared in 2007.

Embedded with a U.S. bomb squad in Baghdad.

The story that inspired The Hurt Locker.

On Norman Bel Geddes, pioneer of miniatures and maker of the “most iconic World’s Fair exhibit of all time.”

Testimonies about the Soviet war in Afghanistan, reported by the 2015 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

While accused killer Robert Durst was in Galveston, he made a few friends besides Morris Black.

A mayday call in the critical moments after the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform.

The shooting death of the last wild Passenger Pigeon, atomic energy, mastodon watering holes, and other footnotes in Ohio history.

Alaska brims with stories of people who vanish and are given up for dead. Once in a while, the dead return.

Three days, 64 people shot, six of them dead: Memorial Day weekend in Chicago.

A Marxist archaeologist uncovers traces of fugitive slave settlements deep in the Great Dismal Swamp.

How the tiny town of Roundup, Montana became a hub in Amazon’s supply chain.

Basketball is considered one of the most difficult sports to effectively bet on, therefore gamblers like Haralabos Voulgaris who make a handsome living on NBA lines are a rare breed, whose knowledge of the game and personal statistical databases rival most of the league’s front-offices’.

“A unicorn, a monster, a phoenix, a machine, a heavyweight fighter, an astronaut, a superhero, a thoroughbred, a home-run hitter, a waitress juggling ‘16 entrees, 42 starters, 16 desserts,’ a jazz virtuoso, LeBron James, Magellan, Snuffleupagus. The actress Laurie Metcalf has been compared to all of these things.”

The dark side of startup life in Silicon Valley.

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Rich students complete their college degrees; working-class students usually don’t. How one school is trying to intervene.

A journey on the Sunset Limited, which ferries people from Louisiana to California.

Learning of a plot against the life of the newly elected Lincoln, Alan Pinkerton decamps to Baltimore and infiltrates the conspiracy.

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

How a series of lies and an incompetent lawyer led to a Florida woman’s wrongful conviction.