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.

What it’s like to have thousands of fans who don’t recognize you.

In the throes of an epidemic, researchers investigate how to inoculate against the disease.

How the “biggest grow op willing to publish its address” could make Canada an international pioneer in the legalization and commercialization of weed.

The Obama administration was supposed to fight corporate concentration. In the airline industry, at least, it didn’t work out that way.

The dream of getting from Los Angeles to San Francisco in 35 minutes has run into a few speed bumps.

“We have a lot in common. We go to the same shrink.”

How Montana became home to the highest concentration of hate groups in the nation.