Our writer nearly drowns, 236 songs later.

An adventure on an Alaskan glacier with a new best friend.

Inside Robert Sarver’s 17-year tenure as owner.

The life and politics of Joan Didion.

Inside the world of competitive darts.

The story of the Refugee Olympic team.

On the future of Myanmar.

The writings of Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik are a copy-and-paste hodgepodge of “jeremiads against the scourge of cultural theory, lists of atrocities perpetuated by Muslims, and pages of derision of ‘female sluts,’ but also Wikipedia articles about sugar beet farming and investment tips.”

“Redistricting today has become the most insidious practice in American politics—a way, as the opportunistic machinations following the 2010 census make evident, for our elected leaders to entrench themselves in 435 impregnable garrisons from which they can maintain political power while avoiding demographic realities.”

On “the Incidents”, three shootings in a single month in a 1,300 person hamlet tucked inside the 12-year-old Nunavut territory. (The complete 4-part series.)

Last September, law enforcement officers were confounded by a murderer targeting prostitutes along the border. As the investigation intensified, they discovered that the killer had been hiding in plain sight.

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.

An execution in war-torn Cuba.

An epilogue to Serpico.

Life and death in an underground economy.

He was white nationalism’s heir apparent. Then he went to college.

Chris, a 25-year-old black man, tries to get a good job.

How race and recollection still frame an Alabama football fatality 40 years later.

President Bush’s strange friendship with Vladimir Putin.

Searching for meaning at Baldwin’s soon-to-be-demolished home in France.

A last-minute trip to Sri Lanka.

Arthur Mondella took over his family’s maraschino cherry business reluctantly. But once he had it, he started a second enterprise. Behind an unmarked roll-down gate, behind some of his prized luxury cars, behind a pair of closet doors, behind a set of button-controlled shelves, behind a fake wall and down a ladder in a hole in the floor, Mondella built a 2,500-square-foot marijuana factory. When the police finally found it, he shot himself.

Last Fall, America’s favorite focus drug suddenly went into short supply.

Two men named Nathan committed murders. Only one received a death sentence.

How a jazz pianist disappeared into his music.