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There are two roles to play in the new world of on-demand everything: royalty or servant.

Investigating a pilot’s choice and the death of 217 people.

For a few weeks a few years ago, Jeremy Lin was on top of the basketball world. Now he’s riding the bench, being taunted by Kobe Bryant, and trying to figure out what the hell happened.

Tommy Gilbert seemed like your average Beekman Place ne’er-do-well son—until his dad turned up dead.

The Scandinavians had an idea that seems wacky to Americans: make a prison safe and livable.

An athlete without arms or legs tries to get a spot on a the national wheelchair rugby team.

The former Beastie Boy, 48, tries to figure out what’s next.

Three siblings from Chicago ran away to become jihadis. Is it fair to try them as terrorists?

A woman in an unhappy marriage stumbles toward change.

"Without turning the radio on, Hannah drove back into town and into the driveway of her house. She sat there in the car for a long while and ran through the drive with Tex over and over. She wanted to go back and stop herself from touching his leg. She wanted to go back and stop herself from driving there in the first place. She wanted to go back and stop the day from ever starting."

After DNA test cleared Clarence Harrison of a crime he didn’t commit, he was released from prison and awarded $1 million. But the redemption story he tells publicly hides a more complicated reality.

The most coveted items on the prison menu are salt and pepper packets.

A weekend with the only person on Earth who can survive five venomous snakebites in 48 hours.

Lonnie Sue Johnson is an artist who can’t retain a memory for longer than a minute or two.

What happened to one of the most hated basketball players in NCAA history after playing a single season at Georgetown.

It’s the “City of the Big Automobile,” raw and beautiful at once.

Cleaning up after the fisherman at a remote lodge in Northern Ontario.

One man’s story.

He built it as a “portal into a world of quiet.”

The British artist, a contemporary of Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, has been called “the most unabashedly all-balls-out, rock ‘n’ roll” of her generation.

A reporter returns to My Lai.

“When I was a child, Dad told me that he chose to become a cop because a cop was the most respected man on the block. When I took a seat at the grown folks table, he told me that he wanted control.”

Fast food used to be a transitional, temporary work. In Creston, Iowa, it has become a career.

The government says Matt DeHart is an online child predator. DeHart—and his parents—say he’s being framed over his knowledge of CIA secrets.