“Stanley McChrystal, Obama’s top commander in Afghanistan, has seized control of the war by never taking his eye off the real enemy: The wimps in the White House.”

What Gregg Popovich, 5-time NBA champion coach, looks for in players.

An indecent proposal, a crime of passion, and legends of murder in an enclave of bohemian retirees.

Aside from the wealthiest players, nine out of 10 NFL athletes are likely to be insolvent within 10 years of retirement. A new executive MBA program aims to change that.

Prison rape is an epidemic; but the bulk of abuses are not by prisoners themselves, but by guards and other prison workers.

Guatemala discovers, in bat-guano spotted documents, the truth about its violent past.

The internet has made porn ubiquitous. It’s also ruined the industry.

On Japan’s Hokkaido, an island the size of Ireland, and its rebel leader of lore, Shakushain.

A profile of Harold Camping, a Christian radio host who (falsely) predicted the end of the world.

A grandmaster on the computers that have bested him and how we have misunderstood the implications of artificial intelligence.

His hotel heists had detectives convinced they were on the trail of one of the world’s most skilled con-men.

Hundreds of families have flocked to Colorado hoping medical marijuana will relieve their children’s epileptic seizures. This is the story of one family’s migration.

Pimp, brawler, Old Master.

Why the second Indiana Jones was so dark.

A glimpse into the overcrowded California State Prison, Los Angeles County.

When a writer’s daily routine gets out of control.

One morning, as I gobbled my doughnut and slurped my coffee, thinking to myself, "What a fantastic doughnut, what an amazing coffee," I realised that I had not just thought this but was actually saying aloud, "What a fantastic doughnut! What a totally fantastic experience!", and that this was attracting the attention of the other customers, one of whom turned to me and said, "You like the doughnuts, huh?"

On the actress’s stellar year.

Chaos and heroism during a Kentucky school shooting.

So you’re surrounded by idiots. Guess who the real jerk is.

A former first-string tackle considers the green zone as a war zone:

Just as football has evolved in accordance with the evolving business ethic of American society, so has it evolved in accordance with the changing strategic assumptions about war. The development (or rebirth) of the T-formation in football coincided almost exactly with the development of a new era of mobility and speed in warfare best exemplified in the Blitzkrieg tactics of the German armies in Europe in 1939-40. The T-formation soon overwhelmed the “Maginot Line” mentality of traditional football, based as it was on rigid lines and massive concentrations of defensive and offensive power.

On leaving New York for Portland.

On Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu’s lust for blood-sport.

Ina May Gaskin and the battle for at-home births.

Searching for the star behind Dlisted.