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How Rogue Techies Armed the Predator, Almost Stopped 9/11, and Accidentally Invented Remote War
The making of the drone.
The DIY Scientist, the Olympian, and the Mutated Gene
How a woman whose muscles disappeared discovered she shared a disease with a muscle-bound Olympic medalist.
Unearthing the Sea Witch
Behind the character Ursula in The Little Mermaid was a legendary drag queen from Baltimore named Divine.
Tween on the Screen
How Dennis from Head of the Class grew up to be the Aaron Sorkin of tween television.
The United States of America vs. Bill Keller
Inside the complicated world of running The New York Times.
The True Life Confessions of Fleetwood Mac
In the wake of Rumours, the band endures a series of break-ups.
Fiction Pick of the Week: "The God of the Living Room"
Newly sober, a man considers faith in its various forms.
The Chinese Century
Without fanfare—indeed, with some misgivings about its new status—China has just overtaken the United States as the world’s largest economy.
Broken on the Wheel
An innocent man was executed – in 1761. Voltaire got on the case.
On the Road with Hannibal Buress, Comedy's Most Respected Slacker
A portrait of a comedian in the moment just before he becomes huge.
The Player Whose Bell Stayed Rung
Football-related brain damage made Rickie Harris fall from the heights of the NFL to serving a DUI sentence in his ex-wife’s basement.
The Strange Case of the Dentist and the Pimps
How a family man dentist got involved in an underage prostitution ring.
How Carrots Became The New Junk Food
An industry responds to the recession by rebranding the carrot as anything but vegetable.
The Exorcist in Love
A profile of Laura Knight, a Florida mother of five who investigates the paranormal.
Caballo Blanco’s Last Run: The Micah True Story
The search for a missing ultramarathoner in New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness, and the life that lead him there.
The Cup Of Coffee Club: The Ballplayers Who Got Only One Game
It’s a club “filled exclusively with people who do not want to be members.”
Whitey Bulger’s Women: Inside the Terror and Glamour of His Ex-Girlfriends
On the Boston mobster’s exes.
Aaron Sorkin Works His Way Through the Crisis
A profile of the screenwriter in the aftermath of a personal meltdown and a national tragedy.
The Easy Rider Road Trip
The Onion’s Keith Phipps retraces the route Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda followed in Easy Rider.
The End of Men
As of this year, more women than men are in the U.S. workforce. More women are managers and more women are earning college degrees. Here’s why.
Inside the Nitrous Mafia
Nitrous balloon vendors clash in the parking lots of jam band festival across the Northeast.
The Family Prostitute
The Great Recession’s impact on the legalized prostitution industry in Nevada: more hookers, fewer johns.
The Interrogation of Detainee 063
A classified Guantánamo Bay interrogation log reveals the techniques used on Mohammed al-Qahtani, the so-called 20th 9/11 hijacker.
Abd el-Kader and the Massacre of Damascus.
Nineteenth century Muslim-Christian hero Abd el-Kader, the “Algerian George Washington.”
