A bus tour through Israel with a conservative radio host and 450 of his biggest fans.

A conversation about race, Hollywood, and what it’s like to be able to conjure weed out of thin air.

Confessions of a serial husband.

Notes from a month-long voyage on a massive container ship.

A blow-by-blow account of Howard Unruh’s slow, deadly walk through Camden, New Jersey – filed an hour before deadline.

An excerpt from a new oral history of MTV.

Twenty years ago, Brian Peixoto was convicted of killing his girlfriend’s 3-year-old son. But is he innocent?

A French reporter went undercover as potential “caliphette” and recieved a marriage proposal from a senior ISIS commander.

Ethnicity and primary education in Bosnia & Herzegovina.

Part of Guernica’s ‘Writer’s Bloc’ series.

Should modern medicine shift its end-of-life priorities, focusing less on staving off death and more on improving a patient’s last days?

How a legally dubious FBI sting lured a pair of Russian hackers stateside.

Filipinos make up nearly a third of all cruise ship workers. It’s a good job. Until it isn’t.

An hour-by-hour account of last weekend in Charlottesville.

An investigation into widespread denial, inaction, and information suppression of sexual assault and violence allegations at Michigan State.

A profile of New York City Ballet’s resident choreographer.

Jack Whittaker won a $314 million Powerball jackpot. This bit of luck would destroy him.

On labor organizing at a Silicon Valley giant and what happens when a company loses touch with its motto of “don’t be evil.”

A cross section of Angelenos consider ‘What’s next?’

Big banks entrusted money to an armored truck company GardaWorld. It secretly lost track of millions.

On Ephemerisle, a “floating festival of radical self-reliance,” and other attempts at creating an island utopia.

A profile of Elizabeth Gilbert, whose bestselling memoir may have sunk her literary career.

A battle against an invasive breed of ants has begun in Texas. It also might be over already.

A profile of 21-year-old Dan Cates, who made $5.5 million playing 145,215 hands in 2010.

In 1991, Frank Sterling confessed to a crime he didn’t commit. His story highlights a common – and controversial – method of police interrogation.

What happened when one of San Francisco’s most notorious underworld bosses tried to go clean.