An eyewitness account of Robert Kennedy’s assassination.

Pimp, brawler, Old Master.

How the Third Reich was founded on a conspiracy theory.

The life and mysterious death of dissident Bulgarian writer and radio journalist Georgi Markov.

On May 16, 1913, after he’d spent years earning a chance at American stardom, Canary Islander shortstop Alfredo Cabrera played his one and only Major League Baseball game.

A narrator shares a philosophical discussion with the late orator.

"Cicero and I mounted a johnboat banked in the mud along this near finger of Mark Twain Lake. Neither of us wanted to do the shoving off. Our feet would have to get wet."

The controversy-filled world of shipping pallets.

Why 18th-century French police obsessively tracked elite sex workers.

What happened to the only child who survived the 1985 MOVE bombing.

Two men, separated by more than 150 years, discover the folly of attempting Western-style capitalism in Micronesia.

A brief history of the world and the late 1990s Chicago Bulls.

"This is the version of him that has no future or past. No ex-wife or kids, no off-court life. He lives in the United Center. He doesn't fuss with food or water. There are whole months in the air, between the floor and the rim. This moment of quiet and loud gets stuck on repeat. Michael Jordan shoots, swishes, but a lot of times he just stands, lit. An occasional swivel. Rotates like a figurine. Television size. He could dribble his basketball in the palm of your hand."

The author relives her Romanian youth and the imprisonment of her father through the Securitate files kept on her family.

What Rüdiger Heim learned about his father.

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Revisiting the street corner where Franz Ferdinand was shot.

On the discovery of a billion dollars worth of artwork looted by Nazis in the cramped apartment of a Munich recluse.

A story of boom and bust.

An illustrated codex, hand-composed in an unknown writing system.

On the “queer roots” of Disco, House, and beyond.

An oral history project involving former IRA members becomes a prolonged court battle over a four-decade-old murder.

With up to four million World War II soldiers considered missing in action on the Eastern front, a group of Russian volunteers vows to unearth, identify and properly bury their remains.

The rocky career and enduring appeal of country legend Charlie Rich, “the missing link between Elvis Presley and Ray Charles.”

How the Syrian president stays in power.

On Benjamin Murmelstein, the head of the council of elders at the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

Rethinking Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil.

Arriving in China at 23, Sidney Rittenberg spent 35 years as a “friend, confidante, translator, and journalist” for the Communist Party’s top leaders. In this interview, he recalls both his friendship with Chairman Mao and the 16 years he spent in solitary confinement.