Doug Dodd was a drug kingpin in high school. And now, like the narrator of a Scorcese film, he wants to tell his own story.

On Juliana Buhring, a former cult member who became the first woman to bike around the world.

“But the journalism itself is not free. It can’t be free. And if it is free, it’s not going to be very good.”

Before embarking on dangerous rock climbs, Matt Samet would use whiskey to wash down powerful prescription tranquilizers. A first-person account of extreme addiction.

For the members of UCLA’s undocumented immigrant club, going to school means fighting for an education most students take for granted.

The battle to contain the Asian tiger mosquito–one suburban, above-ground pool at a time.

Dozens of young adults in rural Wales are hanging themselves, feeding an epidemic of copycat suicides that experts are have been unable to contain.

Kids are identifying as gay at younger ages, sometimes only 10 or 11. Their communities and parents are scrambling to adapt.

On how a childhood spent in New York City’s tenements led a 15-year-old boy to be convicted of murder.

Kevin Hart wanted a scholarship to play Division I college football. It didn’t come. So he made one up–and called a press conference.

A writer struggles to understand, among other things, why humans do more for whooping cranes than for themselves.

How the mind behind Lemmings and Grand Theft Auto plans to push gaming further.

The story of how Washington blew its best shot to do something on climate change.

A trip to the Famous Poets Society convention/contest in Reno.

Diapers.com has a stripped-down business model, a massive warehouse staffed by robots, and a legitimate chance to outsell Amazon.

Are we at war? The U.S. government’s evolving response to cyber security and its impact on privacy.

The cops thought they had captured a fugitive. They had not. Elias Fishburne was a hairdresser from Maryland and was going to jail.

A trip to Râmnicu Vâlcea, a town of 120,000 where the primary (and lucrative) industry is Internet scams.

An update to Into the Wild.

On simplicity, self-reliance and refusing to cooperate with “the apparatus of secrecy” that surrounds online surveillance.

A decorated college track coach, forced to resign because of an affair she had with a athlete 10 years before, fights back.

Most of the country is trying to keep guns out of schools. A town in rural Idaho is taking the opposite approach.

Two floors of a building in prime Brooklyn for $1000 a month seemed too good to be true. It was.

In Utah, an unlikely leader is looking to end the state’s land-use wars.

How a group of Queens high schoolers changed music forever while barely managing to remain on speaking terms.