How one driver can break a bottleneck.

A profile of Felipe Lopez, high school phenom.

How incest and rape go unpunished in the Amish community.

An early profile of Sasha Grey.

On Al Vernacchio, the best sex ed teacher in America.

A breakdown of the early 80s homeless epidemic.

A profile of the world’s most notorious weapons trafficker.

The author of Truly Tasteless Jokes unmasks herself.

The story behind “the best brisket you’ll ever eat.”

An oral history of WFAN.

The emotional toll on drone pilots.

The truck driver who reverse engineered the atomic bomb.

Life as a pageant queen in Plant City, Florida.

The poet and his love affair with Italian motorbikes (and also lots of women.)

On the interminable two weeks between a bad sonogram and the end of a pregnancy.

Wikipedia entry for “Traction Park,” central New Jersey’s most dangerous mid-1980’s amusement park.

In short order, eight gay men in Texas were murdered by teenage boys.

A profile of the Fox News commentator.

A profile of the film critic.

Could the pandemic teach us why our sense of smell matters?

The origin story of a now-ubiquitous celebration.

German painting’s arch-traditionalist has a brush with controversy.

On the writer W.G. Sebald.

Dr. Drew has turned addiction television into a mini-empire, offering treatment and cameras to celebrities who have fallen far enough to take the bait.  His motivations, he insists, are pure:

Whether the doctor purposefully cultivates his celebrity stature for noble means or wittingly invites it because he himself likes being in the spotlight, he is operating on the assumption that his empathetic brand of TV will breed empathy instead of the more likely outcome, that it will just breed more TV.

On animal cremation and burial in New York:

Riding around Manhattan on a delivery run with a car full of pet cremains, it's hard not to look at the world differently. The omnipresence of pets becomes glaringly obvious, and their inevitable fate is never far from the mind. It's easy to imagine the whippet being jaywalked across Eighth Avenue getting hit by a car. The cocker spaniel on 23rd Street? A bucket of cocker bones in the making.