The difference between a social network and a movie about a social network, and what it says about the Facebook generation.

A profile of the Los Angeles Clippers owner, an oft-sued real estate baron with a documented racist streak and a penchant for heckling his own players, on the occasion of him winning an NAACP lifetime achievement award.

Nobody loved chimpanzees more than St. James Davis and his wife LaDonna; the couple spent more than 30 years—and gained a modicum of fame—raising one as their son. Then they almost died in a brutal chimp attack.

A profile of The Rock, the best friend you didn’t know you had.

In the wake of a brazen but mysterious Philadelphia gunfight, Marvin Harrison, the man who holds the NFL record for receptions in a season, may find himself with a permanent record of a different sort.

The life and times of Myrtis Dightman, who broke the color barrier in professional rodeo and became one of the best bull riders who ever lived.

Mexico’s drug cartels are moving into the gasoline industry—infiltrating the national oil company, selling stolen fuel on the black market and engaging in open war with the military.

He was a Harvard Law professor who taught a class on judgment, which made him an unlikely target for an elaborate paternity scheme that nearly cost him his house and family.

A prostitution and sex trafficking ring operated on the outskirts of a U.S. Navy base in Bahrain and may have involved 15% of the sailors stationed there.

For half a century, she has taken the things we know best— our bodies, our rituals, our nation — and shown us how strange they really are.

If Thrasher is Vogue for skaters, 53-year-old Jake Phelps is the sport’s Anna Wintour.

The organization’s leadership is focused on external threats, but the real crisis is of its own making.

He was a college freshman partying in Manhattan for the first. He ran into a woman he knew from college, got separated from his friends, and ended up at a house party full of strangers. By the next morning, his body would be dumped in a Brooklyn driveway. Fifteen years later, the “circumstances of his death remain muddled.”

“The problem with Christie isn’t merely that he is a bully. It’s that his political career is built on a rotten foundation.”

Elias Pompa is the lone deputy in one of the poorest counties in Texas. He is also at the center of the U.S. border crisis.

Alberto Salazar is one of the most celebrated running coaches in the world. Is he also a cheater?

Not only is the penny useless, it costs the U.S. Treasury $50 million per year. So why is it still around?

Why Darwin’s theory of sexual selection is wrong and “gayness is a necessary side effect of getting along.”

The circus is gone. The presidency is ending. The mystery endures.

In the feral communities of Russia’s Far East, tiger poaching is among the few lucrative pursuits. This is the story of a tiger who fought back.

Nick Denton is rebooting his entire Gawker empire—and his vision is drawn more from TV than blogs.