“Florida, in some ways, resembles a modern Ponzi scheme. Everything is fine for me if a thousand newcomers come tomorrow. The problem is…no one knew what would happen if they stopped coming.”

An interesting side effect of reading the report is to feel that anyone who claims to have understood its arguments, purposes, and consequences within twenty-four or forty-eight hours of encountering it is likely untrustworthy.

Although femicide is a recognised crime in Mexico, when a woman disappears, the authorities are notoriously slow to act. But there is someone who will take on their case.

An immigrant on what happens when neighbors turn on each other:

"Every Bosnian I know had a friend, or even a family member, who flipped and betrayed the life they had shared until, in the early 1990s, the war started. My best high-school friend turned into a rabid Serbian nationalist and left his longtime girlfriend in Sarajevo so he could take part in its siege. My favorite literature professor became one of the main ideologues of Serbian fascism. Just last week, I talked to a Muslim man from Foča whose mother was repeatedly raped by his Serb friend, and whose brother was killed by their neighbor. Yugoslavia and Bosnia had provided a sense of societal stability for a couple of generations, which is why the betrayal was so shocking to so many of us."

The intricate dance between highly organized ultras fan organizations, the teams they support, and the mafia for control of the center of curva and the lucrative ticket-touting opportunities that come with it.

The unlikely ascent of A.Q. Khan, the scientist who gave Pakistan the Bomb, and his suspicious fall from grace.

The strange life of Boston Corbett, the soldier who killed John Wilkes Booth in 1865.

The profile of a crime syndicate which dominates the European cocaine trade.

Jimmy McNulty, Mike Daisey, and the problems with skirting the system to get to the greater truth.

The lives of the Indians who were swallowed in the Bhopal gas cloud, thirty years later.

When the music was real, but the bands were fake.

The rise and fall of the “most far-flung, most organized, and most brazen example of homosexual extortion in the nation’s history.”

Traveling the highway that could make Brazil an economic powerhouse — at the expense of the Amazon.

How the government enabled the one percent to capitalize on the housing crisis.

A patriotic parade, a bloody brawl, and the origins of U.S. law enforcement’s war on the political left.

On Alison Winter’s Memory: Fragments of a Modern History, and issues of memory in the 20th century.

Underlying the compelling feeling that we are our memories is a further common-sense assumption that our entire lives are accurately retained somewhere in the brain ‘bank’ as laid-down memories of our experience, and that we retrieve our lives and selves from an ever expanding stockpile of recollections. Or we can’t, and then that feeling that it’s on the tip of our tongue, or there but just out of range, still encourages us to think that everything we have known or done is in us somewhere, if only our digging equipment were sharper.

On the country’s poorest.

An investigation into the family of the accused Boston Marathon bombers.

Seventy years after three of the bloodiest days in U.S. history, the battle continues to bring the missing men home.

The rise of the Peoples Temple through the lens of an earlier group: Father Divine’s Peace Mission.

The story that certified Gehry as a genius and the Guggenheim Bilbao as the building of the late 20th century.

A profile of the director, written from the set of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.

A journey to explore the rising authoritarianism in Hungary and its weirdest fringe: the people who believe they’ve descended from Attila the Hun.

At 22, he single-handedly put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Then he was arrested by the FBI.

How the the rush to direct-selling platforms like OnlyFans could change the adult industry forever.