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Politicians want to rein in the retail giant. But Jeff Bezos, the master of cutthroat capitalism, is ready to fight back.

Some risky but practical proposals to harness a superpower that has clearly lost control.

Murderous readers and a house of memory.

An oil tanker was ordered to save more than 100 migrants floating in the middle of the Mediterranean. Europe didn’t want them. They couldn’t go back to Libya. How would they survive?

Elizabeth Pierce impressed investors with hefty contracts for fiber—until they learned she was the only one who’d signed them.

Why everything is getting louder.

One teammate made tennis his whole life. The other had a grandfather whose company invented Hot Pockets. Guess which one went to Georgetown as a Division I recruit.

Where will predictive text take us?

An oral history of the war in Afghanistan.

The view of a life from cruising altitude.

This presentation was shown to potential recruits for the new Maven SI venture, and it details exactly how the people now in charge of Sports Illustrated plan on turning it into the sort of volume-driven content farm that ruled the web a dozen or so tweaks of the Google algorithm ago.

A profile of the Korean director.

In the early 1960s, the paranoid Hoffa asked Chuckie to buy thousands of copies of George Orwell’s 1984 and distribute them to union locals around the country. “Some of these poor guys, the only thing they knew was how to drive a truck or work at a warehouse,” Chuckie told me. “They didn’t have the knowledge of the electronic shit. Mr. Hoffa wanted them to read that book and said that this is what’s going to happen to not only us but to everybody—and exactly what he’s predicted has happened.”

Ex-Ivy Leaguer and NFL-er Jeff Hatch spent years telling audiences of his triumph over opioid addiction, to great acclaim. Then as the rehab center he worked at drew national attention, a tortuous backstory of cops, dealers and deception came to light.

From pecan pralines to ‘dots.’

The untold story of Patriots owner Robert Kraft’s two visits to the Orchids of Asia Day Spa.

Firsthand accounts of the largest and most ambitious internment drive of a minority group since Nazi Germany, emerging from a region of totalitarian surveillance and control.

Haley downloaded the app for fun. Now millions of people watch her videos.

The long, loving search for Betsy, bovine escape artist.

On surfer girls in Maui; the story that led to the film Blue Crush.

The complexities of aging and desire.

After two officers came to a Pacific Northwest community, longtime residents began to disappear.

The country was captivated by the Balloon Boy. But what really happened?

No one can seem to agree on his surviving merits. He wrote like an angel, the consensus goes, except when he was writing like a malfunctioning sex robot attempting to administer cunnilingus to his typewriter.