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.

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.

Wrestler Jimmy ‘Superfly’ Snuka was one of the WWF’s first high-flyers in the 1980s. In 1983, his girlfriend, Nancy Argentino, died in a hotel room with a head injury. The case remains unsolved 30 years later—and after this article was published it was reopened.

The case against Snuka was dismissed earlier this month after a judge ruled him incompetent to stand trial. Snuka died on January 16th.

Extracted from the author’s memoir, Life Itself.

The British satirist Auberon Waugh once wrote a letter to the editor of the Daily Telegraph asking readers to supply information about his life between birth and the present, explaining that he was writing his memoirs and had no memories from those years. I find myself in the opposite position. I remember everything. All my life I've been visited by unexpected flashes of memory unrelated to anything taking place at the moment. These retrieved moments I consider and replace on the shelf.

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?

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

How to get high in America – legally.

Sissel Tolaas is a star in the world of smells. Her methods are not always subtle.

From 1976 to 1986, one of the most violent serial criminals in American history terrorized communities throughout California. He was little known, never caught, and might still be out there. The author, along with several others, couldn’t stop working on the case.

The invention of offshore banking.

The story of Universe 25, a mouse utopia that became an overcrowded hell, and its implications for the future of humankind.

Brian Chavez was supposed to be the one who made it out of Odessa. It didn’t turn out that way.