Two men with the same name. A murder, a manhunt, and a chilling question: Did a Florida court hand down a life sentence because of a mistaken identity?

A 90-year-old amateur archaeologist who claimed to have detonated the first atomic bomb was also one of the most prolific grave robbers in modern American history.

After thousands of birds vanished overnight from a Florida refuge, conspiracy theories bloomed.

Justice isn’t so easy to come by when an American soldier stationed abroad is accused of murder.

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.

“If I’m writing a thing based on something that happened, it often starts to become fun for me when I see there’s an opportunity to make myself look even more of a jerk than I am in real life.”

The search for the perfect hot dog—by way of haute cuisine.

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 a streaming empire has changed the way the world has sex.

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

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

The author visits the 9/11 Memorial Museum, 13 years after his sister’s death.

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

The primate who ruled the news vanished again. A quest to find him led deep into Florida’s monkey kingdom.

Didion’s genius is that she understands what it is to be a girl on the cusp of womanhood, in that fragile, fleeting, emotional time that she explored in a way no one else ever has. Didion is, depending on the reader’s point of view, either an extraordinarily introspective or an extraordinarily narcissistic writer. As such, she is very much like her readers themselves.