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On the difficulty of diagnosing chronic lyme disease and the persistent struggle to do no harm.

He is one of the most powerful people in media and has become a prominent voice in the #MeToo movement. Now six women accuse Moonves of harassment and intimidation, and dozens more describe abuse at his company.

Monika Glennon had one brief exchange with a complete stranger in a Facebook comment section. That stranger destroyed her life.

As the country’s population ages and shrinks, there’s increasing demand for services that clean out and dispose of the property of the dead.

Each year, about 50,000 women are severely injured giving birth. Half of these injuries could be reduced or eliminated with better care.

Seth Herter’s life was full of delusions. But the murder was all too real.

A story of literary ambition, fabulous parties and a hidden past.

Jeff Henry often said that his goal in life was to make customers of his family’s legendary water parks happy. It was a beautiful vision. Until it went horribly wrong.

An adopted woman's brushes with fortunes and family ties.

Last week, as America’s top national security experts convened in Aspen, a strangely inquisitive Uber driver showed up, too.

A comprehensive history of the case against the Menendez brothers, built primarily on secret audio recording made by their self-promoting therapist.

Inside the growth of Goop — the most controversial brand in the wellness industry.

Remembering Amy Winehouse.

A profile of Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren.

On rongorongo, which no one can decipher.

Why does prenatal care ignore the topic altogether?

“The first thing I always notice… is that I’m not alone.”

How a cabal of authors profited by gaming Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited algorithm.

President Trump hailed him as a catalyst of the summit with Kim Jong-Un. But what happened to Warmbier—the American college student who was sent home brain-damaged from North Korea—is even more shocking than anyone knew.

JD.com is expanding its consumer base with drone delivery and local recruits who can exploit villages’ tight-knit social networks to drum up business.

Mel Brooks in his 90s.

There are no resurrections in Armageddon MUD, a text-based role-playing game (RPG) set on the harsh desert planet Zalanthas. One of the Internet’s oldest extant virtual worlds, it is an amoral fairytale about dune traders and bandits, assassins and sorcerer-kings, collaboratively written by thousands of players over a period of twenty-six years. Created in 1991 by a thirteen-year-old coder named Dan Brumleve, the kernel of the story was cribbed from a Dungeons and Dragons campaign setting called “Dark Sun,” source of the game’s fantasy races (elves, dwarves, muls, halflings, half-giants), its kaiju-sized insects, and the foundational conceit of a once-verdant world desiccated by “defiling” magic.

A profile of "L.A.'s most adventurous eater," restaurant critic Jonathan Gold, who died Saturday.

Previously: a 2012 interview with Gold in The Believer.

A profile of Jordan at 50.