Robert Marbut is in the business of helping cities criminalize homelessness.

How Cantor Fitzgerald is bringing the principles of day trading to sports betting in Vegas.

In 2009, three followers of an Oprah-endorsed motivational speaker named James Arthur Ray died in an Arizona sweat lodge. Now, after serving two years in prison for negligent homicide, Ray is trying to get back on the self-help circuit.

Do not assume, just because there is champagne and whiskey and maybe, sometimes, drugs, that these shuckers aren’t also thinking long and hard, and often poetically, about their métier.

Investigating an insecure billionaire’s true worth.

Life after a scandal.

On a $40 million raise and a fired co-founder.

A trip to Hempfest with cannabis breeder DJ Short.

Life, death, and last year’s Auburn-Alabama game.

We are disgusted by butchery, even as we eat more meat than ever.

How one man made millions with a fancy hamburger.

Portraits from weed country.

What does it mean to be polite anymore?

A profile.

On a Presidential paper trail.

An unfinished civil war inspires a global delusion.

How social media, FaceTune, and plastic surgery created a single, cyborgian look.

On Toyin Salau’s disappearance and death.

Life in Green Bank, West Virginia, a town without cell signals and a haven people with electromagnetic hypersensitivity (a disease that may or may not exist).

An interview with Michael Maren, who spent nearly twenty years working in Africa as an aid worker and then a journalist, on why NGOs and “feed an African child” charities do more harm than good.

First her best friend was murdered. Then her mother fell from a balcony. And finally a man she had just met was found dead in her house.

Pete Forde was a good landlord and a great friend, or so his tenants thought. Then they discovered he was filming them in their most private moments.

If researchers can figure out how pigeons and rats evolve to thrive in hostile city habitats, it could help other beasts—including us—adapt to climate change.

The vans, operated by for-profit companies, carry tens of thousands of people every year. They lack beds, toilets, and medical services. More than a dozen women have alleged they were sexually assaulted by guards while being transported; since 2012, at least four people have died.

When the Feds sought the death penalty for four African-American drug dealers in Baltimore, the accused found a defense in the unlikeliest of places: the legal theories of white supremacists.