Hemingway was in love with two women at once. He found the experience wrenching.

Reconsidering Virginia Woolf’s novel, Orlando.

How a couple made millions on uncanny forgeries.

For a half-century fires have burned under Centralia, PA.

Why last night’s chicken made you sick.

A found diary holds a love story—and a mystery.

“Redistricting today has become the most insidious practice in American politics—a way, as the opportunistic machinations following the 2010 census make evident, for our elected leaders to entrench themselves in 435 impregnable garrisons from which they can maintain political power while avoiding demographic realities.”

On “the Incidents”, three shootings in a single month in a 1,300 person hamlet tucked inside the 12-year-old Nunavut territory. (The complete 4-part series.)

An execution in war-torn Cuba.

Life and death in an underground economy.

Searching for meaning at Baldwin’s soon-to-be-demolished home in France.

On the revolutionaries, highly-paid negotiators, former spies, foreign businessmen and their families, who all played roles in the massive Colombian kidnap and ransom industry during its 1990s heyday.

How technological progress slowed from its 20th-century peak, why we’ve shifted from changing reality to simply simulating reality, and whether capitalism is the true culprit.

Last September, law enforcement officers were confounded by a murderer targeting prostitutes along the border. As the investigation intensified, they discovered that the killer had been hiding in plain sight.

Ricky Williams today.

Arthur Mondella took over his family’s maraschino cherry business reluctantly. But once he had it, he started a second enterprise. Behind an unmarked roll-down gate, behind some of his prized luxury cars, behind a pair of closet doors, behind a set of button-controlled shelves, behind a fake wall and down a ladder in a hole in the floor, Mondella built a 2,500-square-foot marijuana factory. When the police finally found it, he shot himself.

In the past dozen years, state and local judges have repeatedly escaped public accountability for misdeeds that have victimized thousands. Nine of 10 kept their jobs, a Reuters investigation found – including an Alabama judge who unlawfully jailed hundreds of poor people, many of them Black, over traffic fines.

Dozens of convicted criminals have been hired as cops in Alaska communities. Often, they are the only applicants. In Stebbins, every cop has a criminal record, including the chief.

How an unassuming bureaucrat outsmarted Jamie Oliver and pulled off a cafeteria miracle in one of America’s unhealthiest cities.

A profile of a young activist in Chicago who almost committed suicide on Facebook Live.

A gym entrepreneur’s side business in marijuana spins out of control.

A profile of the Hot 97 DJ a few months after “he told the truth about who he is, even if it’s not entirely clear—even to Mister Cee himself, even now, to this day—what exactly that truth is.”

A boy whose skin blisters at the smallest touch is fighting for his life.

The debate over censorship and Section 230 is thorny, contentious, and, above all, outdated.

A primer on how the smartphone generation is redefining communication.