Searching for Dave Chappelle ten years after he left his show.

As a diagnosis, it’s too vague to be helpful—but its rise tells us a lot about the way we work.

For decades, poppers have been the go-to sex drug for gay men. But where do they come from?

In Austin and cities around the country, prices are skyrocketing, forcing regular people to act like speculators. When will it end?

A father who brought his daughter to a ballgame and the fallout from a foul ball.

The human lives lost in exchange for cheaper goods.

Inside North Dorcester’s RJam Productions studio, where Nate and Gary Smith churn out rap demos for $500/tape.

“The first time I was ever published in a book was 1997. It was because I found Roger Ebert’s email and asked him a question.”

A drunken evening with the Primer and Upstream Color director.

The abusive relationship between a Bell Gardens mayor and his wife ends with her firing a gun.

A man had a gift for teaching people to beat the polygraph. Now he’s going to prison.

A trailer and the people who lived with Dylann Roof in it before he killed nine people in a Charleston church.

A conversation about leadership, Grantland, regret, and the President’s favorite conspiracy theories.

A young journalist spent her days covering sexual assault and domestic violence. Then she became the story.

The author on Lolita, his work habits, and what he expected from his literary afterlife.

A decade later, on the then twenty-three-year-old Van Morrison’s 1968 album Astral Weeks.

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

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

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.

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

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.