The first piece of gonzo journalism, annotated.

Catching “the world’s most prolific criminal fixer of soccer matches.”

What does it mean for the rest of life on Earth?

The US election as witnessed by 25 reporters in 23 countries.

The durable ineffectiveness of John Boehner.

“For so long, we’ve thought keeping our heads down and being invisible in America might help us gain acceptance — but the recent wave of racist violence has shattered that myth.”

He became a guru in the self-optimization scene, hobnobbing with the likes of Elon Musk. But will anyone listen to his warnings about the movement that brought him renown?

The Air Force, beholden to corporate forces, is trapped in a contract with Northrop Grumman to rebuild the nuke program.

Exploring the relationship between cats and the Internet in Japan.

On the road with three high school show choirs and a dream.

Why is the actor wrestling—and nearly dying in the ring—at the age of 48? For pride, acceptance, and to undo the mistakes of his past.

Investors all over the world fell for the schemes of the man who called himself Khalid bin al-Saud. But the truth turned out to be more incredible than the lie.

The warmer it gets, the more we use air conditioning. The more we use air conditioning, the warmer it gets. Is there any way out of this trap?

I say, Where’s Breonna, why won’t anybody say where Breonna is? He says, Well, ma’am, she’s still in the apartment. And I know what that means.

In the small coastal country, an exploding industry has led to big economic promises, and a steep environmental price.

For decades, “trimmigrants” have flooded California’s Emerald Triangle during harvest season in search of highly paid seasonal work. In the isolation of the dense forest, sexual assault is commonplace and rarely investigated.

Alaska brims with stories of people who vanish and are given up for dead. Once in a while, the dead return.

Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian launches an ambitious campaign.

The case against agriculture.

What is the sickness that leads inhabitants to sleep for days?

On the art of the takedown.

In 1959, a social psychologist in Michigan brought together three institutionalized patients for an experiment:

[W]hat would happen, he wondered, if he made three men meet and live closely side by side over a period of time, each of whom believed himself to be the one and only Jesus Christ?

The shrinking of the country’s ice sheet is triggering feedback loops that accelerate the global crisis.

The joys—and absurdities—of finding oneself abandoned in a desolate landscape.