A profile of the artist at the time of her fifth solo record.

A profile of Huell Howser, the happiest man on TV.

The rise and fall of a teen fashion empire.

Daniel Mallory Ortberg on coming out as trans.

The strange life of a 16-year-old model.

Inside Alden Global Capital.

Jane Jacobs has a somewhat ambiguous legacy—or at least one that's contested by different factions in the present-day debate over cities and urbanism—but to me her most important idea is encapsulated in the title and spirit of this piece. It's old and, I think, utterly prescient about what successive waves of planning fads miss. The purpose of urban space is for people to use it. A great place is a place where people want to be.

-M. Yglesias

One man describes his family’s tradition of delivering rhyming couplets at celebrations.

An essay on Beyoncé and her fans.

Airbnb vs. New York City.

The 1900 death of Fritz and the battle to define his legacy.

Investigating the murder of a friend and colleague.

How English became the weirdest major language in modern use.

An obituary for the baseball legend.

What happens when we’re tracked everywhere we go?

A profile of the actor.

Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian launches an ambitious campaign.

The Los Angeles surgeon who can double your size for $13,000.

Investors all over the world fell for the schemes of the man who called himself Khalid bin al-Saud. But the truth turned out to be more incredible than the lie.

The daily deals company turned down a $6 billion offer from Google and went public. Now its stock is down 80% and its founder/CEO has been fired. On Groupon’s failed strategy and tenuous future.

On the Republican Party’s successful use of redistricting to “pass draconian anti-immigration laws, end integrated busing, drug-test welfare recipients and curb the ability of death-row inmates to challenge convictions based on racial bias.”

“Okay,” I said. “What do you think is the percentage chance that I’m right?”

“I don’t know,” she said. “Five percent?”

California’s redwoods, sequoias and Joshua trees define the American West and nature’s resilience through the ages. Wildfires this year were their deadliest test.

Sixteen years after he was exposed as the most fraudulent journalist of his generation, Stephen Glass is confronted by an old friend.

Thirty years after it was first pioneered, the Brain Fingerprinting system is finally being put to the test.