Amidst the football-obsessed culture of small-town Christian colleges in Kansas, a player is killed at a party.

What is the defining achievement of Barack Obama?

From the proto-bleep to meta-bleep: how the US government protects us from the profane.

With Osama dead, U.S. intelligence is zeroing in on the remaining most dangerous terrorists alive, and one man is at the top of the list. Of the eighteen terror attacks attempted in the United States over the past two years, Anwar al-Awlaki’s fingerprints are on eight of them. The moderate turned radical is eloquent, he is popular— and he’s American.

'He collapsed on Granville Road, within 100 meters of the house he was renting for $20,000 a month. Police and medics were called to the scene, but within 30 minutes, Perepilichny was pronounced dead. Police told the press the death was “unexplained.” A 44-year-old man of average build and above-average wealth had simply fallen down and died in the leafy suburb he’d recently begun calling home.'

The role of money plays a two-sided role in Borges’ artistic life. On one side of the coin’s face, Borges was blessed with the most privileged, ideal life for a burgeoning literary genius. Educated in Europe, raised by his father to become a serious writer, Borges devoted his entire life to literature. He did not take a full-time job for nearly 40 years. But on the coin’s reverse side, we see that young Georgie Borges did not actually write his great fictions until after his family lost their money.

The W.N.B.A. is putting on some of the best pro basketball in America.

Cases of COVID-19 are rising fast. Vaccine uptake has plateaued. The pandemic will be over one day—but the way there is different now.

On Lucille Miller, who in San Bernadino in 1964 was convicted of burning her husband to death in his Volkswagen.

A mid-boom critique of New York City’s high-priced, mostly glass condo buildings.

How a group of 17 trans athletes came together last November to make history.

In 1986, two lovebirds busted out of a coed prison in a hijacked helicopter. They’ve been trying to escape ever since.

How phone phreakers, many of them blind, opened up Ma Bell to unlimited free international calling using a technical manual and a toy organ.

After thousands of birds vanished overnight from a Florida refuge, conspiracy theories bloomed.

A gender studies professor, diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, decides to take control of her death.

Evidence of a decades-old hotel trist with a teenage intern costs a beloved Chicago columnist his job - and his identity.

Some of unit’s clients stifle opposition, stoke extremism.

How a 20-something made millions as an e-commerce hustler.

How the heir to the Hart wrestling dynasty burned every bridge from Canada to Mexico.

A conversation with the anonymous novelist.

A world-renowned physicist’s miscalculation.

The on and offline search for the prime suspect in last month’s celebrity nude photo hacking scandal.

Only after buying a new home did the Milliken family learn something terrible had happened in it.