A profile of the (very emotional) pop singer.

A trip to Malheur Refuge.

The profits and controversy of posthumous celebrity.

Live from the World Series of Poker.

On the enduring appeal of Olive Garden.

On the choices Fred Rogers made.

On the influencer moms of Byron Bay.

Despite decades of research, myth and fear still surround the animals.

How feverish selling and infighting built the buzziest artist of 2020.

A profile of Alex Trebek.

An investigative reporter goes undercover at a dealership to learn the tricks of the trade, of which there are many.

An interview with Greil Marcus on the songs of Van Morrison and why people are afraid of imagined things.

The origin story of Gabriel García Márquez’s classic.

Their community forged by industry, residents of Badin, North Carolina confront the long shadow of racism and pollution.

The tragic romance of Jim Irsay, the shrewd owner of the Indianapolis Colts, and Kimberly Wundrum, a mother who shared his longtime addiction to painkillers, that ended with her overdosing in the secret condo he bought her.

Eleven books into his planned thirteen book The Wheel of Time cycle, the most popular fantasy series since Lord of the Rings, Robert Jordan saw death on his own horizon and planned accordingly. A 31-year-old former Mormon missionary inherited his universe.

“Political argument has been having a terrible century. Instead of arguing, everyone from next-door neighbors to members of Congress has got used to doing the I.R.L. equivalent of posting to the comments section: serially fulminating.”

When a down-and-out doctor finds his rundown mansion is haunted, he pulls the quintessentially American move: opening the house to the public for a fee. Everything goes wrong from there.

On the Israeli national baseball team.

In the early years of the Iraq war, the U.S. military developed a technology so secret that soldiers would refuse to acknowledge its existence, and reporters mentioning the gear were promptly escorted out of the country. That equipment—a radio-frequency jammer—was upgraded several times, and eventually robbed the Iraq insurgency of its most potent weapon, the remote-controlled bomb.

Scientists are studying the extreme weather in northern Argentina to see how it works—and what it can tell us about the monster storms in our future.

On a desolate, six-mile stretch of Indian beachfront, the bulk of the world’s big ships are dismantled for scrap. Though a ship is usually worth over $1 million in steel, the margins are low, the leftovers are toxic, and the labor—which employs huge numbers of India’s poor—is wildly dangerous.

On the perils and poisons of mining for gold in southeastern Peru.

“A story is a kind of biopsy of human life.”

On the assassination of a half-Palestinian, half-Jewish cultural revolutionary.