How a Tiny Endangered Species Put a Man in Prison
How a night of drunken mischief led to the death of a rare endangered fish and a rare prosecution.
The Truth About Dentistry
It’s much less scientific—and more prone to gratuitous procedures—than you may think.
Michael Lewis is the author of several bestselling books and the host of the new podcast Against the Rules.
“I think anything you do, if it’s going to be any good, there’s got to be some risk involved. I think the reader or the listener will sense that you were taking chances and it will excite them. So, you never want to do the same thing twice, and you don’t want to cling to something because it’s the safe thing. I try to keep that in mind. Ok, I started with this, but if I push off shore clinging to this life raft or this floatation device and I get way out of swimming range of the beach, but I find this more interesting flotation device, have the nerve to jump from one to the next. You never know where it’s going to lead.”
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Selfie Deaths Are an Epidemic
More than 250 people have died since 2011 taking pictures of themselves in dangerous locations.
The Invention of the ‘Salvator Mundi’
In 2005, the painting sold at auction for $1,000. Its most recent price? $450 million.
'Everyone Wants to Find a Villain'
What happened when Pete Buttigieg tore down houses in Black and Latino South Bend.
Guantánamo's Darkest Secret
The U.S. military prison’s leadership considered Mohamedou Salahi to be its highest-value detainee. But his guard suspected otherwise.
Excuse Us While We Kiss The Sky
Navigating the sewers of London and summiting the peaks of Paris with a group of urban explorers.
15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside Facebook
Scandals. Backstabbing. Resignations. Record profits. Time Bombs.
Watching the Internet React to the Worst Night of My Life
On the death of David Carr.
Secrets of the Tax-Prep Business
How pop-up tax preparers make billions off the poor.
The Legend of Keanu Reeves
“Every generation gets its own Keanu Reeves, except every generation’s Keanu Reeves is this Keanu Reeves.”
Duel in the Sun
The neck-and-neck race that electrified the 1982 Boston Marathon.
Tiger Woods, the Man. Amen.
A profile of Tiger Woods at 21.
Ten Days in a Mad-House
A journalist goes undercover in Blackwell’s Island Insane Asylum.
Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds
The psychology behind our limitations of reason.
Lost at Sea
A few miles north of San Francisco, off the coast of Sausalito, is Richardson Bay, a saltwater estuary where roughly one hundred people live out of sight from the world. Known as anchor-outs, they make their homes a quarter mile from the shore, on abandoned and unseaworthy vessels, doing their best, with little or no money, to survive.
Death of an Adjunct
Thea Hunter was a promising, brilliant scholar. And then she got trapped in academia’s permanent underclass.
The Legend of Jacinto’s Gold
Two Dominican families, their lawyer, and a quest for ancestral riches that may not exist.
Bret Easton Ellis Thinks You're Overreacting to Donald Trump
An interview with the novelist.
'For Five Years We Dreaded Every Meal'
After two months in the hospital, a mother finally got to take her premature baby home. Then she spent five years trying to convince him to eat.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Sunsets Are Giant Rainbows"
Friends and their plans, big and small.
Climate Change Could Destroy His Home in Peru. So He Sued an Energy Company in Germany.
Local communities are taking the world’s largest polluters to court. And they’re using the legal strategy that got tobacco companies to pay up.
'The Unthinkable Has Happened'
You learn to believe in your child’s existence. What happens when she’s killed by a piece of your daily environment?
‘‘You Got Your High School Diploma?’’
What happens when you put a classroom on wheels and park it in the poorest neighborhoods of San Francisco?
