A portrait of a modern family undone by the political zeitgeist.

How a July 4th meal exposes the coronavirus risk for thousands of US food workers.

How the murder of Timothy Coggins was finally solved.

Finding the author of Pictures for Sad Children.

“I underwent, during the summer that I became fourteen, a prolonged religious crisis. I use “religious” in the common, and arbitrary, sense, meaning that I then discovered God, His saints and angels, and His blazing Hell. And since I had been born in a Christian nation, I accepted this Deity as the only one. I supposed Him to exist only within the walls of a church—in fact, of our church—and I also supposed that God and safety were synonymous.”

“There are people who are wired to be skeptics and there are people who are wired to be optimists. And I can tell you, at least from the last 20 years, if you bet on the side of the optimists, generally you’re right.’

How a 29-year-old actress, reeling from the death of her first love and battling Dustin Hoffman off-screen, found herself on the set of Kramer vs. Kramer.

Lance Butterfield was the captain of the football team, had a 4.0 GPA and a girl he loved. It wasn’t enough for his dad. And then his dad became too much for him.
Part of our guide to Skip Hollandsworth’s true crime writing at Slate.

With the biggest bout of his career looming, Andre Ward — who some consider the world’s best boxer — opens up about his family and his faith.

Paul Wayment made a profound mistake, left his 2-year-old son alone in his truck as he tracked deer in the wilderness. The boy was gone when he returned. The story of a collective struggle to find a just punishment.

There’s a tale about a boy in Waycross. Near a canal, he struck a match, lit a piece of newspaper, and tossed it into the water. But when the burning paper touched the surface, it didn’t go out. The water burst into flames.

At 25, Stephen Glass was the most sought-after young reporter in the nation’s capital, producing knockout articles for magazines ranging from The New Republic to Rolling Stone. Trouble was, he made things up—sources, quotes, whole stories—in a breathtaking web of deception that emerged as the most sustained fraud in modern journalism.

A bungled operation in Honduras and the enduring ineffectiveness of America’s war on drugs.

An investigation into the practice of putting teenagers in solitary confinement.

Summiting one of the world’s toughest peaks gave Julian Torres something an IED blast in Afghanistan had taken away.

Across the world, millions of displaced Syrians have been met with hesitation and hostility. Not in Canada.

An investigation into the abuse and neglect of adults with disabilities in Illinois.

Throughout their troubled lives, identical twins William and Chris Cormier shared a preternatural bond. Then the body of a Florida journalist ended up in their backyard.

On cushy jobs in web development, deeply un-cushy opportunities in writing, and our assumptions about the value of labor.

What the writer’s newly revealed letters mean for her long-debated legacy.