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

“When I’ve had courage, I often lacked the healthy choices. When I’ve had healthy choices, I often lacked courage. Ending unhealthy transactional relationships and opening ourselves to radical possibilities is one way we effectively heal ourselves and others in America.”

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.

The antagonistic partnership that produced Sunset Boulevard.

On being the lone male student at a women’s college.

On why we need to stop questioning Wikipedia and start thinking about what comes next.

Why do all those rugged coastlines, moors and stone buildings make England seem haunted?

Seized passports, debtor’s prison, and slave labor prop up a Disneyland in the desert now in decline.

With The BFG, the filmmaker tackles childhood’s possibilities and terrors once again.

What the Fresh Air host has learned after 13,000 interviews.

How she has controlled the GOP and gun law in Florida.

On PredictIt, a site that allows you to bet on politics, and the people who are getting rich off it.

The people who run these platforms have to make decisions about the greater good—whether they want to or not.

In 1976, a school bus carrying 26 children and their driver disappeared from a small California town, capturing the world’s attention.

After Moneyball became a best-seller, Michael Lewis learned that many of the ideas it presented to the general public had actually been introduced decades earlier by a pair of Israeli psychologists.

Adapted from The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds.

Shanghai, in 1989 and 2013. Excerpted from A History of Future Cities.

He made billions. He lost billions. He was fired as CEO of the company he created. And on March 2, just hours after he was accused of rigging oil deals, he died in a one-car crash.

Kids have taken a technology that was supposed to help grownups stop smoking and invented a new kind of bad habit, molded in their own image.

When a Black lineman from Colorado State went knocking on doors in a white neighborhood, he found himself at the dangerous intersection of a national racial reckoning and a world of internet-conspiracy fanaticism.

The school founded by evangelist Jerry Falwell ignored reports of rape and threatened to punish accusers for breaking its moral code, say former students. An official who says he was fired for raising concerns calls it a “conspiracy of silence.”