“When I was a child, Dad told me that he chose to become a cop because a cop was the most respected man on the block. When I took a seat at the grown folks table, he told me that he wanted control.”

The government says Matt DeHart is an online child predator. DeHart—and his parents—say he’s being framed over his knowledge of CIA secrets.

A last-minute trip to Sri Lanka.

The long arm of the DEA reaches into Liberia to bust a cocaine trafficker.

Squeamish though they might be about God, even the totally irreligious can find some comfort in praying.

An essay on a fatal car crash in the author’s youth.

An innocent man was executed – in 1761. Voltaire got on the case.

He was a fixture in the kitchen of one of Seattle’s most celebrated restaurants, with plans to move to New York City to further his career. Then he robbed a bank.

“Some of the best lines — and I’ve been lucky to hear really nutso lines over the years — are not in response to any kind of question. It’s in response to, ‘I don’t know.’”

The origins of Lagunitas are laced with THC.

The East India Company was once “too big to fail.”

An investigation into the steady dismantling of safety nets for injured workers.

The despair behind the puzzle of what happened to Malaysian Airlines flight 370.

“What I had going for me was teen rage, contempt impervious to offers of compromise; the power of the mask capable of turning ice to marshmallow, and all the time in the world, all the ability to sustain it without surrendering.”

For decades a group of radical Catholics, many of them nuns, have been keeping up the good fight against nuclear weapons.

An ode to Juiceboxxx, a 27-year-old rapper from Milwaukee no one’s ever heard of.

The story of a young man, a lake with some fish, a compound bow and a very bad idea.

A segregated housing development washed away in a flood can still explain why Portland, Oregon, is such a “white” city.

“Okay,” I said. “What do you think is the percentage chance that I’m right?”

“I don’t know,” she said. “Five percent?”

Living on your parents’ farm while pregnant changes your relationship to time.

The love story behind the battle over gay marriage in Texas.

Finding the thread of depression in the personal history of a friend’s suicide.

Ending homelessness is really quite simple: give people somewhere to live. Why’s Utah the only place willing to try it?