Sex, the Constitution, and the Supreme Court.

Analysis of the trial from future Supreme Court justice.

Every law student knows John Brady’s name. But few know the story of the bumbling murder that ended in a landmark legal ruling.

The Supreme Court justice on gay rights, the problem with consensus, and the Devil.

In 1976, newly appointed Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens voted to reinstate capital punishment in the United States. Thirty years later, he argued that it’s unconstitutional. Here, he explains why he changed his mind.

How Chief Justice John Roberts pulled off Citizens United.

How Neil Gorsuch became the second-most-polarizing man in Washington.

On the combined force of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Virginia, a Tea Party stalwart.

No one argues before the Supreme Court more than Tommy Goldstein.

“They cruise the city in chauffeured cars, blasting rap, selling pot to classmates. How some of New York’s richest kids joined forces with some of its poorest.”

Georgia and Patterson Inman, 15-year-old twins, are the only living heirs to the $1 billion Duke tobacco fortune. They are also emotional wrecks who have barely survived a hellacious childhood.

On the brother of the Sultan of Brunei, Prince Jefri Bolkiah, who has “probably gone through more cash than any other human being on earth.”

An overachiever on what he did and didn’t learn at Princeton.

A profile of Paris Hilton at the height of her fame.

An invite-only social network for Georgetown assholes.

How two sisters, heirs to the Bronfman fortune, may have blown $100 million supporting the cult-like group NXIVM.

A profile of Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, the Malibu-dwelling, “fantastically corrupt” dictator-in-waiting of Equatorial Guinea. Teodorin, as his friends call him, is considered by U.S. intelligence to be “an unstable, reckless idiot.”

The murderous tale of Washington D.C. fabulist Albrecht Muth and his late wife Viola Drath.

A wedding photographer catches up with his past clients.

Erwynn Umali, Will Behrens and the first gay wedding on a military base.

The marriage and divorce that bankrupted the Dodgers.

In an Oklahoma City neighborhood usually left off city maps, the federal government is implementing its $300 million anti-poverty plan: teaching poor Americans how to get married.

The dissolution of Brooklyn softcore skin-mag Jacques and the marriage of the couple that created it.

The frenzied few days before the marriage of Prince Charles and Diana Spencer.

In 1916, a down-on-its-luck traveling circus hung its star elephant. The crime? Murder.

The similarities between the reactions of elephants and humans to childhood trauma.

On imperialism, doubt and a day in colonial Burma.

Is it ever OK for zoos to display elephants? And if not, what should keepers do with them?

Nearly everything you could want to know about elephants, plus the metaphysical questions the animals raise about our own consciousness.

Riding rescued elephants through a wildlife park.