A profile of Thelonious Monk.

“They thought they were going to change the world,” he says of the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project volunteers. “They didn’t expect that white folks would be so vicious.”

She told the family of a severely disabled man that she could help him to communicate with the outside world. Then she said they were in love.

Gerald Blanchard, the world’s most ingenious thief, made his first swipe at age six. And he didn’t stop, robbing banks and stealing jewels around the world until a pair of obsessed Winnipeg cops took his case.

How a Nigerian-American conned upwards of $40 million from banks during the housing boom using publicly available information from the internet, persuasive storytelling, and prepaid cellphones, and then ditched his FBI tail in a casino.

A profile of the grieving musician, who lost his teenage son 18 months ago.

“The sex abuse is a symptom of a culture that does not allow the athletes to have their voice.”

When Ben Roethlisberger, Charles Barkley, Stormy Daniels, Karen McDougal and the future President of the United States crossed paths at a celebrity golf tournament.

Did a member in a shadowy Mormon offshoot known as the Order collect a half-billion dollars in biodiesel credits his company didn’t deserve?

In just a few years, he’s become one of the most fearsome media figures in the country—mobilizing his vast Twitter following to promote his famous friends and punish foes. Can his own past survive similar scrutiny?

“As a matter of historical analysis, the relationship between secrecy and privacy can be stated in an axiom: the defense of privacy follows, and never precedes, the emergence of new technologies for the exposure of secrets. In other words, the case for privacy always comes too late.”

“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.”

Tensions eat away at a relationship between a musician and his girlfriend.

For nearly a decade, Laura Albert lived a double life as troubled teen turned cult writer J.T. Leroy, writing books, chatting constantly with celebrities, and convincing another woman to appear as J.T. Leroy in public.

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.