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“For much of my life, there was something about my mother I felt almost allergic to. As she approached death, for the first time I found I didn’t merely love her, I actually liked her.”

“The Jihad route leads from Tunisia via Tripoli into Turkey and on to Syria. Thousands have followed the path into Syria, and only a few have returned.”

How a major American company helped bring Charles Taylor to power in Liberia.

The comedian on his show business bucket list, Donald Sterling, and whether he ever feels guilty for being funny.

A profile of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick.

"Imagine a great hall of fetishes where whatever you felt like fucking or being fucked by, however often your tastes might change, no matter what hardware or harnesses were required, you could open the gates and have at it on a comfy mattress at any time of day. That’s what the internet has become for music fans. Plus bleacher seats for a cheering section."

How bad lawyering and an unforgiving law cost condemned men their last appeal.

Superstar coders, like actors and athletes, now have agents.

A report from the Central African Republic, where "acts of extraordinary cruelty have become commonplace."

The rapid rise of a wordless language.

Virginia state senator Creigh Deeds, a year after his mentally ill son stabbed him multple times before committing suicide.

The early days of electronic spreadsheets and how the tool transformed business.

During the financial crisis, Sal Pane ran a multimillion-dollar mortgage scam. A few years later, with the help of some high-profile media appearances and a dead man's resume, he won the government contract to clean up Ebola in New York.

On systemic corrpution in the upper house of British Parliament, where lawmakers have the freedom to work for any business—banks, oil companies, Facebook—willing to pay for their “expertise.”

A woman bonds with her terminally ill sister over food, memories, and shaky lives.

The story of a New York City bar and its owner, Old John McSorley.

How do you start closing the gap between rich and poor? Convince the rich to do it themselves.

What happened to McDonald’s?

Last summer, Gia Allemand took her own life in a New Orleans apartment complex. The first person on the scene was her boyfriend, NBA star Ryan Anderson. This is the story of how he survived.

“The Anonymous mystique had allowed a group of incompetents to hijack, then discredit, an important grassroots movement in the eyes of national media.”

“‘Have you ever killed anybody?’”

An illustrated look at modern love, texting, and sex.

An investigation into sexual abuse in youth sports, with a focus on USA Swimming.