It mostly had to do with Patch, the executive’s hyperlocal and unprofitable baby.

The road to Lhakpa Sherpa’s seventh potential summit​ has been nothing if not complicated.

Israel Keyes confessed to multiple murders, but committed suicide before revealing all the details.

Why America, and every other street in Massachusetts, runs (or will eventually run) on Dunkin’.

As the birds decline, one Icelandic island keeps throwing a rowdy, boozy puffin festival.

On his legacy, his impact on California, and why “saints should be judged guilty until proven innocent.”

Jack Nicholson interviewed at 73.

A young dealer goes on the lam after selling multiple masterpieces to several buyers simultaneously.

“His life with the virus would be his witness, his public testimony. Performance as life, and life as performance.”

Troughout his life, Hernández has been known as one thing: a soccer player. But last year, that identifier stopped being enough.

To read the transcript of Erin Hunter’s trial, which runs all of 81 pages and can be digested in half an hour, is to encounter a disregard for human dignity instrumental in producing the most sprawling system of incarceration in the world.

“Fast food and hedge funds. That’s where we’re going.”

How a 24-year-old nurse discovered Vegas, high-stakes gambling, and serial bank robbery.

He was the most powerful fish broker in New Bedford, America’s most valuable seafood port. The Russians who arrived looking to buy his operation were undercover agents and he told them everything.

“Rosemary was wide awake the whole time. The doctors had her recite poems as they cut—when she was silent, they knew the procedure was complete.”

The problems go much deeper than food safety and point to an industry that systematically rewards and enables star chefs while asking few critical questions about the workers who often power their success.

After nearly 15 years in a Peruvian prison, an American woman convicted of aiding a Marxist terrorist group finds parole in Lima full of contradictions.

The story of Dean Corll and his accomplices, who killed over 20 teenage boys in the Heights neighborhood of Houston in the early 1970s, and the families searching for their missing sons.

A profile of the Final Exit Network’s former medical director:

In those final seconds before his patients lose consciousness and die, the words they utter sound like Donald Duck, he says, imitating the high-pitched, nasally squeak familiar to any child who has sucked a gulp from a helium balloon. So, this is how a human being can leave this Earth? Sounding like Donald Duck?

In the 1880’s, a shabbily dressed man popped up in numerous America cities, calling upon local scientists, showing letters of introduction claiming he was a noted geologist or paleontologist, discussing both fields at a staggeringly accomplished level, and then making off with valuable books or cash loans.

As surely as 2008 was made possible by black people’s long fight to be publicly American, it was also made possible by those same Americans’ long fight to be publicly black. That latter fight belongs especially to one man, as does the sight of a first family bearing an African name. Barack Obama is the president. But it’s Malcolm X’s America.

In the ’50s and ’60s, the Reverend Will Campbell marched with MLK Jr. and worked to desegregate the University of Mississippi. Later, broke, he took a job as Waylon Jennings’ roadie and occasional spiritual guru. Afterward, his ministry grew even stranger and more itinerant.

An interview with the literary agent about the state of the book industry and how, at least for him, it continues to be quite lucrative.

Flint residents mold their lives around a perpetual water crisis and endless unanswerable questions.