A sociobiologist on how we evolved into artists.

Alabama’s chemical-endangerment law was passed to protect kids from meth labs. But is the prosecution of about 60 mothers — and the definition of “child” extended to “unborn child” — pushing its boundaries too far?

On Marilyn Monroe and the pains of post-war America.

In 1987, a terrible accident kills five Ole Miss sorority members. The author catches up with her Chi Omega sisters who survived.

On the set of Aaron Sorkin’s new HBO show The Newsroom.

Iran’s sex-obsessed old guard reacts to a state where “the majority of the population is young.… Young people by nature are horny. Because they are horny, they like to watch satellite channels where there are films or programs they can jerk off to.… We have to do something about satellite television to keep society free from this horny jerk-off situation.”

How a lonely, self-taught hacker found his way into the private emails of movie stars — and into the underworld of the celebrity-skin business.

Yearning for conception.

The story of a bizarre—and bizarrely effective—smear campaign.

“That learning to cook could lead an American woman to success of any kind would have seemed utterly implausible in 1949; that it is so thoroughly plausible 60 years later owes everything to Julia Child’s legacy.”

On L.A.’s Homeboy Industries, which offers former felons—including at least one disgraced CEO—the chance to work.