“My name is Jackie and I am addicted to waitressing.” An essay on waiting tables.

A profile of the singer as he returns to the stage for the first time in a dozen years.

A profile of former Liberian president Charles Taylor, who was sentenced to 50 years today after being convicted of committing crimes against humanity.

The bizarre story of the disappearance of “downtown legend” John Lurie after a former friend resolved to take his life.

Three men are exonerated, almost 40 years after a 12-year-old’s coerced testimony led to their murder convictions.

The short-lived literary career of Breece DʼJ Pancake and his roadmap to a world of oppressive poverty.

Immune systems don’t make for clean narratives, even as we expect them to keep us pure.

We are all going to die. So what does it look like?

Can a company best known for explaining Kanye West lyrics and telling Warren Buffett to do unseemly things actually annotate the world?

The dilemma of providing quality health care for undocumented immigrants, and how one city is attempting to solve it.

A Georgia chicken farmer hoped to find financial independence in ethical foie gras. Things got weird.

Key and Peele try to make comedic sense of America’s confusions about race. Their secret? “Really, there’s no actual strategy.”

It’s quite possible to make six figures standing around on a movie set – if you have a union card.

“When constant revisionism and re-invention is under way, what does it profit a biographer to drag the weary ‘facts’ before us?”

The politics behind the anti-trend trend known as “Normcore” turn out to be as conservative as ever.

What happened to one of the most hated basketball players in NCAA history after playing a single season at Georgetown.

An athlete without arms or legs tries to get a spot on a the national wheelchair rugby team.

He was one of Israel’s greatest spies. Then he brought his own country to the brink of war.

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.