Best of 2023: The Audience Awards

Death in a dying town

In a tale that races along like a James Bond novel, Kit Chellel introduces us to Niko Tosa, the man who had casinos scrambling to change roulette. Was his winning streak down to luck, skill, or a supercomputer? We never find out, but trying to figure it out is still a really fun ride.

Dave Chappelle has lived full-time in the tiny, idyllic Ohio town of Yellow Springs for more than 15 years; at this point, it’s as much a part of his personal brand as the everpresent cigarette. But as Tyler J. Kelley reports, Chappelle’s impact on Yellow Springs—including his many real estate purchases and a number of questionably zoned live shows—has become a point of contention among townspeople who fear the end of affordability and find themselves torn between pride and preservation.

As a girl in Austria, Evy Mages was confined to a mysterious institution in Innsbruck. Decades later, she learned why. Margaret Talbot reports.

I thought my mother was an only child. I was wrong.

New research suggests that a subset of patients with psychiatric conditions like schizophrenia may actually have autoimmune disease that attacks the brain.

Mohammad Hassan lay dying on the ice as person after person stepped over his motionless body. But there's more to the story than meets the eye.

'I’m not captive any more,' says a Californian now living in Costa Rica — one of many Black Americans citing racism as why they're leaving the U.S.

Organ transplantation is mired in stagnant science and antiquated, imprecise medicine that fails patients and organ donors.