He was on a flight bound for the English Premier League. Then he was gone.

Boomtown San Francisco, as seen from the Google Bus.

A profile of the director and actor.

How the most expensive and unstoppable invasive plant crisis inspires madness and panic.

Why don’t police catch serial rapists?

Will Sterling Ruby’s new clothing line devalue his other work?

The long, loving search for Betsy, bovine escape artist.

A visit to the massive Northern California surf break.

An archipelago off the African coast and its migration crisis.

On the pseudo-brands of Amazon.

How Allstate’s secret auto insurance algorithm squeezes big spenders.

What the Democratic Party could learn from first-term Congresswoman Katie Porter.

A fatal overdose, a stunning coincidence, and a mother’s long quest to heal.

Why did two wealthy Sri Lankan brothers become suicide bombers?

Tennessee’s sick and dying coal ash cleanup workers fight for their lives.

Alt-health meets alt-right in the ‘conspirituality’ movement.

A conversation with visual artist Noelia Towers.

In Alabama, entrenched poverty and unusual geology have created a public-health disaster.

Adventures with the Wolf of Weed Street.

An essay about artificial intelligence, emotional intelligence, and finding an ending.

By the time I got access to the model, it was late July, 2020. In the fifth month of quarantine, having recently moved home to face my teenage journals, I wasn’t sure if I missed talking to strangers or to Omar. But I wanted to know if, with enough prodding, I could turn GPT-3 into either, or at least convince myself that I had.

On the joy of watching Roger play live at Wimbledon.

They thought that they’d found the perfect New York apartment. They weren’t alone.

But there’s one way that NFTs are profoundly different from the last generation of online disrupters. In terms of ownership, they actually move in the opposite direction of projects like Napster, BitTorrent and the software communities that destabilized the entertainment industry. Those were about reproducing data and sharing it for free, or eventually, a subscription fee. NFTs are about taking what should be a fully shareable image and sticking a SOLD sign on it.

Could that finally be changing?

How the Assad regime tracked and killed Marie Colvin for reporting on war crimes in Syria.