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Over a decade, Theodore Robert Wright III destroyed cars, yachts, and planes. That was only the half of it.

At Lucky Peach and the Los Angeles Times, Peter Meehan reshaped food media. Now his former employees are coming forward to describe the cost of his leadership.

A work trip to Turkmenistan.

An interview with Alan Stillman, who in 1965 founded T.G.I. Friday’s, the first singles bar in America.

Fear, control, and manipulation at Yoga to the People.

Tech oracle Jaron Lanier warned us all about the evils of social media.

Inside the Life Care Center of Kirkland, Washington, the first Covid-19 hot spot in the U.S., where 46 people associated with the nursing home died.

A profile of the candidate 100 days from the election.

I say, Where’s Breonna, why won’t anybody say where Breonna is? He says, Well, ma’am, she’s still in the apartment. And I know what that means.

Here’s how a tiny brush fire became California’s deadliest wildfire.

She wanted to ride with men in one of the world’s most dangerous sports. She had a lot more than her competition to be worried about.

The Mews, a father-son team of orthodontists, have an unusual theory about the source of crooked teeth — one that has earned them a following in some of the darker corners of the internet.

I don’t want my part to get skipped over, but I still don’t know how to write directly about what went down between me and M. All I can do is worry a detail like an R&B singer worries a line.

How UFO culture took over America.

When a Black lineman from Colorado State went knocking on doors in a white neighborhood, he found himself at the dangerous intersection of a national racial reckoning and a world of internet-conspiracy fanaticism.

YouTubers Myka and James Stauffer shared every step of their parenting journey. Except the last.

Without understanding the lingering illness that some patients experience, we can’t understand the pandemic.

A double life across two cultures.

For many trans people, getting gender-affirming surgery can be life saving. But a complicated and quickly expanding system can sometimes leaves patients feeling left behind.

Vivian Stephens helped turn romance writing into a billion-dollar industry. Then she got pushed out.

Roberto Primero Luis set out across the U.S.-Mexico border last year as previous Guatemalan migrants had. But the crossing has changed.

A dispatch from the World Clown Association Convention.

Inside Trump’s battles with U.S. intelligence agencies.