Meet Ben Discoe, a programmer who did it from October 2011 to November 2012.

She was an overnight YouTube success. Then she tried to make a TV show.

An interview with Jimmy Page on nostalgia, Robert Plant, and why he would only publish an autobiography after he dies.

Private planes, caviar lunches and Little League.

Hipsters vs. Hasids in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. A skirmish over a bike lane becomes a battle for a neighborhood.

Foreign policy as architecture; how embassies went from lavish social hubs to reinforced strongholds.

“In 2000, Zimbabwe’s dictator began kicking white farmers off their land. One man decided to stay.”

Deaf, mute and undocumented, he was charged 12 years ago with a capital crime and has been in legal limbo ever since.

Her fiction has imagined societies riddled with misogyny, oppression, and environmental havoc. These visions now feel all too real.

What it feels like to get hit by a major league fastball.

In El Salvador, more and more young women are choosing—or being forced into—gang life.

How extreme weather, which displaced more than a million people last year, could reshape America.

How Jerry Lee Lewis got away with murdering 25-year-old Shawn Michelle Stevens, his fifth wife.

How Craig Carton, a morning host on WFAN, ended up running a Ponzi scheme.

A very Florida investigation.

A two-part investigation into why so many more young players are getting seriously injured.

Antoine Yates spent three years living in New York City public housing with a 450-pound Siberian tiger named Ming.

In 1944, an eighteen year old boy became famous for throwing eggs at Frank Sinatra. Then he disappeared.

Rafael Palmeiro was a surefire Hall of Famer before a positive steroids test derailed everything. He retired a few months later, quietly sent home early by the team that had been planning to celebrate him. Next came depression and a $53 million business deal gone bust.

Ozel Clifford Brazil was a respected clergyman who helped thousands of African-American teens go to college. He broke the law to do it.

Arise Virtual Solutions, part of the secretive world of work-at-home customer service, helps large corporations shed costs at the expense of workers.

“In the computer age, it is not hard to imagine how a computing machine might construct, store and spit out the information that ‘I am alive, I am a person, I have memories, the wind is cold, the grass is green,’ and so on. But how does a brain become aware of those propositions? “

How New York Times is clawing its way into the future:

The main goal is... to transform the Times’ digital subscriptions into the main engine of a billion-dollar business, one that could pay to put reporters on the ground in 174 countries even if (OK, when) the printing presses stop forever. To hit that mark, the Times is embarking on an ambitious plan inspired by the strategies of Netflix, Spotify, and HBO: invest heavily in a core offering... while continuously adding new online services and features... so that a subscription becomes indispensable to the lives of its existing subscribers and more attractive to future ones.

The story of the manhunt.

Philadelphia’s District Attorney reinvents the role of the modern prosecutor.