Ten years ago, Jack Whittaker won the largest lotto jackpot in history. Then he lost everything.

Animal nature, human racism, and the future of zoos.

A profile of Kanye West.

On the occasion of Hamid Karzai’s visit to the White House, a fever dream tour of the Afghanistan war through the eyes of the leaders who gave birth to its narrative.

Edward Luttwak is a rare bird whose peripatetic life and work are the envy of academics and spies alike. ...he published his first book, Coup d’État: A Practical Handbook, at the age of 26. Over the past 40 years, he has made provocative and often deeply original contributions to multiple academic fields, including military strategy, Roman history, Byzantine history, and economics.

From a Tokyo smash and grab to driving a car through the window of a Dubai jewelry shop, how a ragtag band of Balkan thieves set a new bar for audacious heists.

How medical marijuana transformed California’s pot industry.

How a French journalist recruited a posse of Brazilian parking lot attendants and pizza-delivery guys and created Hollywood’s most addictive entertainment product.

The rise of anonymous group suicide in Japan.

The truck driver who reverse engineered the atomic bomb.