A Bad Boy coaches in the WNBA.

Mo Pinel spent a career reshaping the ball’s inner core to harness the power of physics. He revolutionized the sport—and spared no critics along the way.

“They think of us as pests, so they are trying to drive us out of our homes, for what is the Republican drive for our self-deportation if not a plan of fumigation?”

The macabre, ultra-violent plays put on at the Grand Guignol defined an era in Paris, attracting foreign tourists, aristocrats, and celebrities. Goering and Patton saw plays there in the same year. But the carnage of WWII ultimately undermined the shock of Guignol’s brutality, and audiences disappeared.

In 1913, a ship carrying 31 explorers got stuck in the Arctic ice, hundreds of miles from civilization. The leader left to carry on the expedition. Others stuck with the boat. Help wouldn’t come for a year.

Two white security contractors set off into the remote interior. Within a week, a seemingly innocent man who crossed their path lay dead on the side of the road. The manhunt began.

On coming to see your home country the way the rest of the world does.

Last year, the U.S. state department said it had uncovered a fake embassy in Accra that had been issuing a stream of forged visas. The story went viral. It was wrong.

The chef, who died last year, was one of San Francisco’s culinary stars in the 1990s. She created a space for the city’s queer women to thrive in the kitchen.

On the curious life of Archibald Butt, confidant to President Taft and tragic victim of the sinking Titanic.

As much as the narrative of Butt’s heroism meant to the family, to the White House, to the military, it seems all too cinematic. The reality is that the experience was probably a great annoyance to him, right up until the moment it became a nightmare.

Did the NBA executive use social media to secretly disparage his players and defend his decisions?

Requiem for a viral hit.

Life on an isolated island utopia.

The elusive director’s early years.

A Montana sheriff and a manhunt in the mountains.

The search for a missing soldier.

Invented in 1899, it hasn’t been improved upon since.

Hanging out with the Atomic Bombshells in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

When a random person becomes a massive meme.

How we talk about—and live with—schizophrenia.

How solitary confinement can lead to suicide.

On corresponding with the Oklahoma City bomber.

Travels through post-election America.

How populism took a continent.