A profile of the radio legend who helped launch the career of Ira Glass and many more.

The rise and fall and rise again of a crooked televangelist.

Al Seckel held legendary parties in the 1980s and 90s, with attendees ranging from Slash to Francis Crick. He later became a collector of optical illusions and gave a TED talk on the topic. He may have also misled and defrauded many of the people he came into contact with.

Nearly 50 years ago, a penniless monk arrived in Manhattan, where he began to build an unrivaled community of followers—and a reputation for sexual abuse.

A small New Jersey town is world-famous among Orthodox Jews as a place to come ask for handouts.

Sexism and harassment in the freethought community and its implications for atheism’s future.

A profile of Maggie Gallagher, founder of National Organization for Marriage.

On why the Anthony Weiner story makes people more uncomfortable than simple cheating, the shifting meaning of faithfulness in marriage, and the relationship ideals espoused by Dan Savage:

In Savage Love, his weekly column, he inveighs against the American obsession with strict fidelity. In its place he proposes a sensibility that we might call American Gay Male, after that community’s tolerance for pornography, fetishes and a variety of partnered arrangements, from strict monogamy to wide openness.