Kim Goodsell had a pair of rare diseases. Doctors didn’t have the time to look for a link. So she taught herself genetics and found it herself.

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

Monaco’s richest woman was shot in ambush outside a hospital. Her heirs stand to inherit over a billion dollars each.

When jobs vanish, Southern men find new ways to contribute.

In the 1970s, Chile was on the verge of developing sophisticated technology to monitor its economy. Then America intervened.

Why parties, love, kids, conversation and more are so miserable (at least to Phillip Lopate).

Thousands of new warehouse jobs were supposed to help lift a struggling British economy. Instead, employees started equating the work with “being in a slave camp.”

Investigating a former NFL star’s new business: renting professional athletes to their biggest fans.

Bob Voulgaris and his math prodigy sidekick attempt to create the perfect betting algorithm.

A cultural history of Bitcoin and what happened when the nascent virtual currency began to be covered by the mainstream media.

Groupon disasters, the behaviors of the consumer swarm, and how the “1% and the 90% [are] collaborating to prey on the 9% in the middle.”

A trip to an uncompromising cattle ranch.

On the lesbian separatists of the 1970s, who “created a shadow society devoted to living in an alternate, penisless reality.”

A dispatch from Eloise Woods, a natural burial ground where bodies are consigned directly to the earth.

When it comes to sweatshops and child labor, your $7 H&M gym shorts aren’t really the problem (or the solution).

Kathy Phipps was “rescued” by FEMA. Ten years later, she is so anxious she’s confined to her house.

Activist investor Bill Ackman set out to destroy the multilevel marketing company. But did he wind up helping it succeed instead?

Pubs are closing all over London. One Camden establishment, the Golden Lion, decided to fight it.

On the stories we tell ourselves about happiness and the indecent questions we ask women who decided not to become moms.

After his father died in an Airbnb rental, the writer investigates what the company can do to improve safety.

On tour with a man who has claimed to kill Bigfoot three different times.

A trip to the zoo, Charlie Kaufman’s new film, and human despair.

On the science of being fooled.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself--and you are the easiest person to fool.

How corporations are using the First Amendment to destroy government regulation.

An essay on how to turn a sizable book advance into a sizable debt.