An investigation into the death of Victoria Arellano at a Los Angeles County immigration detention facility.

On LA Noire and the gaming paradoxes presented by pairing nuanced storytelling with a player’s free will.

The coldest of cases: During 1884-85, seven women and one man were brutally murdered in Austin, Texas.

On the fascination, from Hollywood to Atlanta, with zombies.

In 1972, James Wolcott arrived in New York armed with a letter of recommendation from Norman Mailer. He hoped to land a job at The Village Voice. Excerpted from his memoir, Lucking Out.

How lucky I was, arriving in New York just as everything was about to go to hell. I had no idea how fortunate I was at the time, eaten up as I was by my own present-tense concerns and taking for granted the lively decay, the intense dissonance, that seemed like normality.

An investigation into the events surrounding Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s May 2011 arrest for sexual assault.

A portrait of three high school kids in Arizona forced to live on their own after SB 1070.

The author tracks down a former Peace Corps volunteer who murdered a fellow worker in 1976.

How prison changed the mother and militant who was sentenced to 75 years for her role in a deadly 1981 Brinks truck heist.

As mainstream news loses its relevance, Allred becomes only more relevant to mainstream news. She’s provided thousands of hours of titillating material that has helped keep cable networks from grinding to a halt. The players come and go. Past clients like Amber Frey and Tiger Woods Mistress No. 1 Rachel Uchitel slip back into obscurity. Scott Peterson rots disregarded on death row in San Quentin, and Woods’s sexual escapades no longer mesmerize. But Allred retains her significance. There are always new victims to premiere and promote, new serial sexual harassers or psychopaths to square off against. In this spectacle of scandal, grisly murder, and celebrity wrongdoing, Allred has made herself the stage manager, the content provider, the indispensable performer.

An essay on “how we ignore the long-term effects of violence on children, adults and our communities.”

Twenty five years after a shooting left him “100% disabled,” a Baltimore police officer continues to fight for his life.

The anatomy of a sex abuse scandal at a Christian school in Oklahoma.

On Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik and the rise of Islamophobia in Norway.

Antibiotics made modern farming possible. But as “societal drugs,” their use by any individual affects us all.

Can a company best known for explaining Kanye West lyrics and telling Warren Buffett to do unseemly things actually annotate the world?

Chérif and Saïd Kouachi’s path to the Paris attack at Charlie Hebdo.

Cheryl Stearns wanted to become the first woman to skydive 20,000 times. She came up 14 jumps short.

A patient arrives in a therapist’s office complaining of writer’s block. He’s not in search of the talking cure, though.

The story of a young man, a lake with some fish, a compound bow and a very bad idea.

It’s a mess inside the network – and Brian Williams may still come out on top.

Perhaps because your people have always hunted them. But also because there’s demand in New York fashion circles for their pelts.

An athlete without arms or legs tries to get a spot on a the national wheelchair rugby team.

A treatment for liver cancer gives the writer a fresh perspective on illness – and wellness.