The true story of a ring of thieves who stole millions of dollars’ worth of luxury watches—and the special agent who brought them down.

How a childhood of anger led the founder of 8chan to create one of the darkest corners of the internet.

The early life of “the onetime Black Panther, protégé of George Jackson, and sole member of the San Quentin Six convicted of murder.”

Remembering jazz musician Ornette Coleman.

The aftereffects of youthful escapes into movie houses.

The mainstreaming of livestreaming.

Memories of “Hollywood’s most grinding bore,” Ronald Reagan.

Here’s what’s become of them.

The haunted aftermath of disaster in Japan.

On the artist’s portrayal of violence and humanity.

On the structural underpinnings of the revolts currently shaking the Arab world.

What can hyperpolyglots teach the rest of us?

A weekend with the United Order of Tents, a semi-covert organization of black women.

On literary manifestos, long-distance reading, and the egg of death.

A consideration of Chris Ware.

A profile of Maggie Gallagher, founder of National Organization for Marriage.

Three boys falsely accused of murder, and what the twenty-year saga says about all of us.

In the wake of a vicious murder, the state of Oregon wrestles with what went wrong in its mental health system.

On Los Angeles’s 1985 declaration of “sanctuary status.”

How a tiny protest at the University of Nebraska turned into a proxy war for the future of campus politics.

On the rise of alt meat and the decline of cattle.

In the Swiss town of Meiringen, where an obsessed group of ‘pilgrims’ painstakingly recreate the death of Sherlock Holmes.