Strictly Q&A

As a college sophomore in 2005, I read Dana Priest’s report about “black sites” –far-flung secret prisons overseas that the CIA used to house terrorist suspects captured from the battlefields.…

On her first weekend at The Winston-Salem Journal in 1987, Phoebe Zerwick’s new coworkers took her to a famous crime scene: the place where a man named Darryl Hunt had…

The word “lament” is a sadly beautiful thing, its layers and meanings distinct, yet entwined. In music, it is a song of loss, of missing someone or something that is…

Filmmaker David Layton isn’t a stranger to the newsroom. Before he produced and directed documentaries, he was a newspaper reporter, so perhaps it’s not surprising that his next project, “The…

The co-founder of the unapologetically longform travel-food-politics site Roads & Kingdoms talks about teaming up with the chef-raconteur and reporting while under the influence of the hallucinogen ayahuasca

Anne Helen Petersen has spent the last year covering Trump rallies and protests, the anti-Dakota Access Pipeline camp at Standing Rock, crowd-funded healthcare, survivalist “preppers” and what it means when…

Sometimes the idea for a book springs from what you don’t know.David Grann had never heard of the “Osage Murders” until a historian he was talking to mentioned the series…

Six years is a long time to be away from cyberspace—especially when you’re known as the Blogfather.At one point, 20,000 visitors came to Iranian blogger Hossein Derakhshan’s site every day.…

The first line of Rania Abouzeid’s story “The Jihad Next Door” could be the opener of a literary spy novel.“The eight men, beards trimmed, explosive belts fastened, pistols and grenades…

Anna Mae McNeil stares past the camera, the smudge of an old bruise under her right eye. The words “New Castle, Pa., No. 220” are written in white ink below…