Bruce Fleming is known for being a chauvinistic, egoistic loudmouth–but firing him has been a lot harder than the Pentagon thought.

Eighteen hours inside one COVID ward, observing what it takes to care for the sickest patients.

Activists insist that police departments must change. For half a century, New York City’s P.B.A. has successfully resisted such demands.

In 1944, an eighteen year old boy became famous for throwing eggs at Frank Sinatra. Then he disappeared.

Three teenage boys decide to set sail after a night of drinking. They go missing for 51 days.

For a few days in 1995, many Indians believed a religious idol had developed a lifelike ability to drink milk.

A cloud enthusiast becomes an advocate for a new type of cloud.

For nearly 17 years, the truth about the murder of Mac Dre has been one of hip-hop’s great unsolved mysteries.

For decades, flying saucers were a punch line. Then the U.S. government got over the taboo.

For one writer, “Hot Vax Summer” is a slow climb.

Why now is the time to rethink COVID safety protocols for children—and everyone else.

Why did Christie Smythe upend her life and stability for Martin Shkreli, one of the least-liked men in the world?

Finding the author of Pictures for Sad Children.

The story of imprisoned boxer James Scott, who contended for the light heavyweight title by staging fights inside Rahway prison.

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.

Thomas Sweatt torched D.C. for decades and was finally jailed for killing one person. During a year-long correspondence from prison with a reporter, he confessed there were more.

In 2017, the Hall of Fame Louisville coach’s career collapsed under a string of scandals, leading to his firing from the school he had coached for 16 years. Now, Pitino is finding himself in Greece, coaching Panathinaikos, working for a self-styled Bond villain, and enjoying a new chapter of his life.

In the years before World War II, Zacharewicz shined at Cannes and was wooed by Samuel Goldwyn but when the Nazis occupied Poland, he was sent to Auschwitz for defending his Jewish countrymen: “For him, the choice was easy.”

On a little-known statistic that tracks the movement of America’s population by searching for its balance point.

How a financial advisor for NHL players may have orchestrated a massive fraud.

How cable sports channels extort hundreds of dollars per year out of every cable subscriber for programming that less than 10% regularly watch.

Departing Marrakech by car with a plan to record music for the Library of Congress.

A case for why race has been the real story of the Obama presidency all along.

How the island paradise of Seychelles became a magnet for money launderers and tax dodgers.