Longform

On the Adderall days of college.

A profile of organizational psychologist Adam Grant, who argues that the key to success comes from helping others.

On the new science of collective behavior.

How the Brooklynization of culture killed regional music scenes.

On Ilya Zhitomirskiy, an idealistic young developer who committed suicide 18 months after founding Diaspora, his well-publicized, open-source alternative to Facebook.

How the author of Friday Night Lights spent more than half a million dollars over three years on “eighty-one leather jackets, seventy-five pairs of boots, forty-one pairs of leather pants, thirty-two pairs of haute couture jeans, ten evening jackets, and 115 pairs of leather gloves.”

Inside the most sensational murder in the history of study abroad.

New research upends ideas about culture’s impact on how our brains our wired.

On a little-known statistic that tracks the movement of America’s population by searching for its balance point.

How the Ovitzs, a family of Jewish dwarves from Transylvania, survived Auschwitz.

Aaron Greene and Morgan Gliedman were young and in love and pregnant and partial to heroin and living in a Village apartment with a lot of heavy weaponry lying about. Then they were arrested, and their stories started to change.

On the skyrocketing number of Americans on disability—14 million at last count, with payouts topping those for food stamps and welfare combined—and what it means for the U.S. economy.

After watching his father Sandy abuse his paralyzed former-jockey mother for years, Mat Crichton committed murder. Nearly the entire local farming community rallied in support of him.

How a longtime gambling addict and a small band of his cronies manipulated both the game and betting exchanges from a tiny Berlin cafe, going as far as buying ownerships of teams in order to insure their failure.

Robert Berman was a passionate and polarizing English teacher at the Horace Mann School. He is also accused of sexually abusing many of his devoted students.

Life as a human cannonball.

An interview with the late writer.

Tracking down a Congolese war criminal.

Born with spina bifida, Noor al-Zahra Haider entered the media spotlight in 2005 after U.S. troops arranged her life-saving surgery in America. This is what happened when she returned to Iraq.

How one obscure sentence upset the New York Times.

A profile of the deadliest sniper in American history, who was murdered last month by a fellow soldier.

Conspiracy theories, utopian fantasies, and cult involvement surrounding the international standard of musical tuning.

Living with – and dying because of – hyperacusis, a condition that grossly intensifies hearing.

Alfred Anaya was a genius at installing secret compartments in cars. If they were used to smuggle drugs without his knowledge, he figured, that wasn’t his problem. He was wrong.