How killing by remote control has changed the way we fight.

Before The Jerky Boys and Longmont Potion Castle there was Mal Sharpe.

Cesar Sayoc turned his loyalty toward Donald Trump into a literal assault on the President’s Democratic enemies in 2018.

The first major interview with The Simpsons’ most prolific and legendary writer.

The historian Allen C. Guelzo believes that the Confederate general deserves a more compassionate reading.

“Jon Corzine had never had anything to do with the futures business, had never run a public company, and hadn’t worked on Wall Street for a decade. His time there had ended badly. But by any reasonable standard, the former Goldman chief seemed almost embarrassingly overqualified. Says Flowers: ‘It seemed like we had more CEO than company.’”

Michael Brown beat the odds by graduating from high school before his death—odds that remain stacked against black students in St. Louis and the rest of the country.

An acquaintance dies in Iraq and a writer investigates. “How did Michael come to inspire such loyalty? And how did he come to die on the floodplain of the Euphrates? I looked closer and saw they were the same.”

On January 13th, 2018, the residents of Hawaii picked up their phones to find a warning: a missile would be hitting the islands imminently. Here’s what people do when they think they only have 38 minutes left to live.

His almost superhuman exploits made him one of the West’s most feared lawmen. Today, the legendary deputy U.S. marshal is widely believed to be the real Lone Ranger. But his true legacy is even greater.

They were pillars of their communities and families, and they are not replaceable. To understand why COVID-19 killed so many young Black men, you need to know the legend of John Henry.

An addict navigates 1980s Detroit.

A Little League season in Camden, New Jersey, where the murder rate is 17 times the national average.

A visit to the hotel North Korea starved to build, still unfinished after breaking ground in 1987.

A visit to a Maine museum devoted to Bigfoot and other mythical creatures.

On the investors betting big on the Iraqi economy, which they believe has nowhere to go but up.

An interview with the novelist.

INTERVIEWER: You once said the novel is dead. VIDAL: That was a joke.

The magician who spent his life debunking spiritualists and exposing con men.

A trip to Nashville to interview the writer Ann Patchett.

How Warren Hinckle and Ramparts magazine helped revive muckraking journalism and launch the New Left.

How Andrew Anglin went from being an antiracist vegan to the alt-right’s most vicious troll.

Charlie Santore sees Los Angeles from the inside, by breaking into safes whose owners can no longer unlock them.

What one funny-looking fish taught us about evolution, the internet, and the monsters we create.

One year ago the journalist Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and never walked out. This is what happened.