A week with DJ Avicii.

Alexander Weygers and his Discopter.

What happens when robots act just like humans?

There has never been a better time to commit financial crimes.

A nephew investigates his uncle’s suicide

Ten years ago, Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto’s disappeared.

Tom Wolfe on the development of ”New Journalism,” an unconventional reporting style which he helped to pioneer.

I had the feeling, rightly or wrongly, that I was doing things no one had ever done before in journalism. I used to try to imagine the feeling readers must have had upon finding all this carrying on and cutting up in a Sunday supplement. I liked that idea. I had no sense of being a part of any normal journalistic or literary environment.

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.

On America’s combat canines and their handlers.

From Norwegian waters to European plates.

How a surfing writer kidnapped by Somali pirates was freed.

Ashlyn Blocker, 13, has a “congenital insensitivity to pain.”

A wedding photographer catches up with his past clients.

Elegy for Aleppo.

On serving time for crimes not yet committed.

A former teacher on what students lose when elementary schools skimp on science.

An investigation into serial killings in a small North Carolina city.

On being—and playing for—Lady Vols basketball coach Pat Summitt.

A trip to Hawaii to cover a marathon.

How a drug store conquered New York.

A 21-year-old’s audacious real estate scam and subsequent escape.

Investigating an infamous Yale secret society.

Bobby Gunn has fought 71 illicit bare-knuckle boxing matches. He’s never lost.

A playoff push. A torn Achilles.

On codeine syrup and Sprite