Tempest in a Test Tube
Inside a high-profile Hollywood child custody battle.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "An Object in Motion"
A child’s hobby transforms slowly into a grown man’s obsessive project.
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Pitchman
Tom Emanski changed the sport of baseball, his iconic instructional videos a mainstay on ESPN. Then he disappeared.
The Weird, Scary and Ingenious Brain of Maria Bamford
A profile of “America’s most vulnerable comedian.”
One of a Kind
When a child has a condition that’s new to science.
Get Rich or Die Shilling
The business of being Pitbull.
How I Became a Knausgaard Truther
Untangling the legend of “Knausgaard-free days.”
Camp Lejeune and the U.S. Military's Polluted Legacy
How the Pentagon makes “Koch Industries look like an organic farm” when it comes to toxic water contamination.
The Forgotten Internment
During World War II, the indigenous Aleut people were forced into camps. 10% died.
The Many Crimes of Mel Hall
A flamboyant player, a charismatic coach, and a sex predator.
A look back at some of our favorite moments from the first 99.
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Foul Territory
A father who brought his daughter to a ballgame and the fallout from a foul ball.
Interview: I Was A Separatist Fighter In Ukraine
A conversation with one of Russia’s “little green men”: a 24-year-old recruited to fight in Eastern Ukraine.
Why Do We Have Blood Types?
More than 100 years after they were discovered, we’re still looking for an answer as to why blood types exist.
Sex Without Fear
The debate surrounding Truvada, the first drug approved by the FDA to prevent HIV.
The Inside Story of Rap Genius (Annotated!)
On a $40 million raise and a fired co-founder.
The Craigslist Killers
The preacher ran a prostitution ring out of his halfway house. The teenager posed as his nephew and later claimed he feared for his own life. Only one man they drove into the woods would survive.
Welcome to Utopia
On a remote island, a former airline executive and his wife are preparing for the world to end. Others are starting to join them.
Nadine Gordimer: The Art of Fiction No. 77
“I come to America, I go to England, I go to France…nobody’s at risk. They’re afraid of getting cancer, losing a lover, losing their jobs, being insecure. … It’s only in my own country that I find people who voluntarily choose to put everything at risk—in their personal life.”
Rikers: Where Mental Illness Meets Brutality
An investigation into how Rikers Island guards treat the roughly 4,000 inmates who are mentally ill.
Wrong Answer
Why Parks Middle School decided to cheat.
The Sad, Strange, True Story of Sandy Allen, the Tallest Woman in the World
A life lived at 7’7”.
The Endless Odyssey of Patrick Henry Polk
Navigating the bureaucratic welfare maze while raising a family.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "Selkie Stories Are for Losers"
A woman reels in the wake of her mother’s absence.
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The Voodoo of Lobster Economics
Following a lobster from sea to table.
