Peggy Jo Tallas spent most of her adult life doing two things: taking care of her ailing mother and robbing bank after bank dressed as a pudgy, bearded cowboy.

“The conditions in America today do not much resemble those of 1968. In fact, the best analogue to the current moment is the first and most consequential such awakening—in 1868.”

On the battle between Google, Apple, Uber, and Tesla to own the driverless car market, which could be worth more than $30 billion a year.

Some players, from the start, were up front about admitting it was a hoax. Others insisted, to their graves, that the story was true, that the Lutz family had been haunted by something. It’s just that the something may not have been paranormal at all.

There’s a hidden cost to the way Florida’s farmers bring in the sugar crop. Just visit the hospitals and measure the climate impact.

A drone sighting caused the airport to close for two days in 2018, but despite a lengthy police investigation, no culprit was ever found. So what exactly did people see in the sky?

Creating, and then attempting to dismantle, a fake persona based on a man who died in 1984.

A survey of sex on a Saturday night in New York City.

Over a million people are buried in a potter’s field on Hart Island. Here are some of their stories.

A Dickensian profession that can still pay upwards of $650,000 per year.

If you are an enemy of Putin, there’s one city where intrigue and assassins are bound to follow you.

A profile of Broadway producer Jeffrey Seller, whose show makes more than $500,000 in profit every week.

A mysterious outbreak. Hundreds of stricken schoolgirls. Was it an illness, or was something darker to blame?

The life and politics of Joan Didion.

Inside the world of competitive darts.

On the future of Myanmar.

A post-acquisition profile of Tumblr’s David Karp.

It was a genius piece of technology. But that didn’t mean it was a business.

Once their careers end, pro wrestlers often fall into emotional and physical disrepair. One of their own, Diamond Dallas Page, has a fix.

From Tetris to Angry Birds, an examination of “stupid games.”

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

ShyShy Pate has been missing for 19 years, but you’ve probably never heard of her.

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.