A return to old habits post divorce.

The decade-long journey of a novel–Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding–through the unpredictable world of book publishing.

Tracing the path of one of the world’s most in-demand minerals from deadly mines in Congo to your phone.

How the President could endanger the official records of one of the most consequential periods in American history.

Over the last several weeks, dozens of lawmakers, strategists and advocates described the closed-door meetings and tactical decisions that led to approval of same-sex marriage in New York, about two years after it was rejected by the Legislature. This account is based on those interviews, most of which were granted on the condition of anonymity to describe conversations that were intended to be confidential.

The catfishing of Chris Andersen.

The construction of a modern American myth.

The angry last days of Ty Cobb.

A short history of leisure.

The changing face of Appalachia.

The many lives of imposter Frédéric Bourdin.

While much of the Levin report describes past history, the Goldman section describes an ongoing? crime — a powerful, well-connected firm, with the ear of the president and the Treasury, that appears to have conquered the entire regulatory structure and stands now on the precipice of officially getting away with one of the biggest financial crimes in history.

For the purposes of this essay, I’ll call it ‘ambient privacy’—the understanding that there is value in having our everyday interactions with one another remain outside the reach of monitoring, and that the small details of our daily lives should pass by unremembered. What we do at home, work, church, school, or in our leisure time does not belong in a permanent record. Not every conversation needs to be a deposition.

Contemplating Gaudi’s unfinished masterpiece, the Sagrada Familia church, as the controversial finishing work is completed.

On the Calorie Restriction movement, the scientifically-supported belief that the key to a very long life is to eat as little as possible.

Housing insecurity in the nation’s richest cities is far worse than government statistics claim. Just ask the Goodmans.

Inside the relationship between the U.S. and Pakistan:

The U.S. government has lied to itself, and to its citizens, about the nature and actions of successive Pakistani governments. Pakistani behavior over the past 20 years has rendered the State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism effectively meaningless.

The author relives her Romanian youth and the imprisonment of her father through the Securitate files kept on her family.

The impact of the oil and gas booms taking place all over the world, and our future on fossil fuels.

What should be done with the bodies of ISIS fighters? While investigating in Mosul, the author uncovers a terrible crime.

Bobby Fischer unravels before the 1972 World Chess Championships, a.k.a. the “Match of the Century.”

How a meteorite hunter’s obsession took him from the mountains of Colorado, to the Bundy Ranch, and eventually landed him in jail.

“The academy’s prestige has been shattered, probably forever,” by allegations of sexual harassment and corruption.

The world’s fastest growing economy isn’t China; it’s the “unheralded alternative economic universe of System D” aka the $10 trillion global black market.