A profile of the publisher of Screw, who died this week.

This past Memorial Day weekend, Steven T. Florio, the president and CEO of Conde Nast Publications, made a dramatic change at The New Yorker, the most illustrious of the 17 magazines he runs for billionaire S.I. "Si" Newhouse Jr. He fired his own brother.

On the history of the Bund, an armed, socialist anti-Zionist group that was once the most popular Jewish party in Poland until they were murdered in the Holocaust.

"Imagine a great hall of fetishes where whatever you felt like fucking or being fucked by, however often your tastes might change, no matter what hardware or harnesses were required, you could open the gates and have at it on a comfy mattress at any time of day. That’s what the internet has become for music fans. Plus bleacher seats for a cheering section."

How our memories become contaminated by inaccuracies.

An essay on the wounded woman.

An essay on the pitcher, friendship and death.

On Joni Mitchell and canons.

Policing the world of experimental research in the age of TED talks and Freakonomics.

The fall of PCCare247, an Indian company in the business of selling fixes to problems that didn’t exist.

On the constantly evolving definition of insider trading and the lingering question of how inside traders should be punished.

Inside the world of special operations weather technicians, “the Department of Defense’s only commando forecasters.”

A profile of Jim Henson before the release of the first Muppet movie.

The story of former Vikings linebacker Fred McNeill and the lasting impact of his concussions.

Tony Kushner and the burdens of being one of the last public intellectuals in American theater.

How coach Gregg Popovich’s love of fine wine led to a 20-year run of success in the NBA.

How the Bounty, a busted-up replica built in 1960 for the film Mutiny on the Bounty, ended up 100 miles out to sea during the height of Hurricane Sandy.

On his anxiety as a teenager, the treatment he was given for it, and the way that the psychiatry of the day failed his family.

There were so many ways the two planes could have avoided the collision. The odds were so slim. But high above the Amazon in 2006, a combination of technology and human fallibility brought them together.

The founding fathers deserve at least some of the blame for the worst presidencies in American history—they created an office that’s vaguely defined and ripe for abuse. Plus: how to fix it.

The 1979 Oscars pitted Hal Ashby’s Coming Home against Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter, wildly different films both on the topic of the Vietnam War.