On Julian Jaynes, a Princeton psychologist who told the story of how humans learned to think.

On Ilya Zhitomirskiy, an idealistic young developer who committed suicide 18 months after founding Diaspora, his well-publicized, open-source alternative to Facebook.

The pharmaceutical quest to give women a better sex life.

The author, an abortion counselor, was 40 and pregnant when a conflicted Catholic woman came to her clinic.

Why the head of Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey hired a former CIA agent to ruin a freelance writer’s career.

What happens when a 26-year-old Kentucky resident decides to investigate a rape case from his computer.

Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe build the most powerful Tea Party organization in the country. Then a feud threatened to undo everything.

“Violence, being instrumental by nature, is rational to the extent that it is effective in reaching the end which must justify it.”

Basketball on a Crow reservation and a player named Jonathan Takes Enemy trying to escape.

More than 100 years after they were discovered, we’re still looking for an answer as to why blood types exist.

The people who go missing while crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, and the people who attempt to identify their remains.

A pair of gamblers and a glitch too good to last.

Vivien Thomas was paid a janitor’s wage, never went to college, and still became a legend in the field of heart surgery.

The lives of Sue and Hector Badeau, who felt a calling to raise children and adopted twenty of them.

How an entire industry built itself convincing lead-paint poisoning victims to sign over settlement payments for a fraction of what they’re worth.

A small town in Nebraska promised a warm welcome to a family of Katrina evacuees. It didn’t last.

The men who say they’ll try to save the once-bustling gambling resort town.

On a local talk show, Ted Bundy’s mother speaks to the family of one of his victims.

The struggles of Xavier University, a tiny, historically-black school in New Orleans, to train students for medical school.

Who was Ashraf Marwan working for when he fell to his death from the balcony of a London flat?

Edward Luttwak is a military strategist, a classical scholar, a cattle rancher, and an adviser to presidents, prime ministers, and the Dalai Lama.

A sociologist’s controversial first book and the debate over who gets to speak for whom.

The final days of the last Navy SEAL to die in Afghanistan.

Government agencies have been trying to protect children for nearly 200 years. They are still failing.

Winona Ryder has always been trapped in her own anticipatory nostalgia, and the public has always wanted to keep her there.