He became a guru in the self-optimization scene, hobnobbing with the likes of Elon Musk. But will anyone listen to his warnings about the movement that brought him renown?

A profile of legendary L.A. crack dealer Freeway Rick Ross, now out of jail and trying to sell everything from weaves to his own biopic, written by a journalist who has known him for decades.

The long, strange trip of the Wikipedia founder, who went from being an Insane Clown Posse fan who owned the “Bomis Babe Report” to a jet-setter married to “the most connected woman in London,” all without turning much of a profit.

At times, Mr. Hsieh comes across as an alien who has studied human beings in order to live among them.

A profile of the Zappos CEO.

Angie Nwandu has no journalism experience. No publishing experience. She’s 25. And in less than two years she has created an entirely new way to cover — and profit from — celebrity gossip.

On September 28, 1980, the Washington Post published a story by an ambitious young reporter about an 8-year-old boy addicted to heroin. The story won a Pulitzer. The boy didn’t exist.

What’s a writer to do when the audacity dwindles?

Investors all over the world fell for the schemes of the man who called himself Khalid bin al-Saud. But the truth turned out to be more incredible than the lie.

Sooner or later a technology capable of wiping out human civilization might be invented. How far would we go to stop it?

An ethnography.

On the rodeo.

It’s been 46 years since she gave her famous commencement address at Wellesley. What she was trying to say then—that politics is personal, that she believes in human connection above all else—she is trying to say again in 2016. Maybe she’s been trying to say it all along.

Paul Skalnik has a decades-long criminal record and may be one of the most prolific jailhouse informants in U.S. history. The state of Florida is planning to execute a man based largely on his word.

“Incels” are going under the knife to reshape their faces, and their dating prospects.

The comedian on his show business bucket list, Donald Sterling, and whether he ever feels guilty for being funny.

Rich students complete their college degrees; working-class students usually don’t. How one school is trying to intervene.

On returning to Britain, which is no longer home.

College is when we first get drunk. Euripides’ The Bacchae can help us learn how to do it right.

Is it time to end the mourning period for old media?

He was supposed to be the Dallas Cowboys’ star running back. Instead, Joseph Randle is in prison.

The NFL is doing everything it can to avoid paying former players who have dementia.

In 1982, a family disappeared from their Los Angeles home. A writer and former neighbor is still trying to put the pieces together.

He was an 18 year old Marine bound for Iraq. She was a high school senior in West Virginia. They grew intimate over IM. His dad also started contacting her.  No one was who they claimed to be and it led to a murder.

The author teaches a college class about what it means to be white in America, but interrogating that question as a black woman in the real world is much harder to do.

Trump transformed immigration through hundreds of quiet measures. Before they can be reversed, they have to be uncovered.