Horowitz went from the New Left to the far right. Now neither side wants him.

What the health care industry can learn from how The Cheesecake Factory does business.

How a dental equipment salesman from Germany named Klaus Teuber invented the perfect board game, Settlers of Catan.

Google’s founders and CEO as they moved from the search business into… everything.

A husband puts himself in his wife’s shoes—with help from a Japanese scientist.

How Mike Enoch went from progressive to fascist.

A history of modern capitalism from the perspective of the straw.

Veteran Andy Chavez’s miraculous journey from coma to Wheelchair Games.

Following fallen soldier Joe Montgomery from field to grave.

A dispatch from th Park Slope Food Co-op.

Reporting undercover from inside the online-shipping industry.

A dispatch from the World Clown Association Convention.

Inside a Michelin-starred chef’s revolutionary quest to harvest rice from the sea.

A French soccer star’s rise and fall from sports to cons to the Nazi Party.

A mother defends her family lineage against disruption from envious cousins.

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How technological progress slowed from its 20th-century peak, why we’ve shifted from changing reality to simply simulating reality, and whether capitalism is the true culprit.

How HBO went from sitcoms starring Delta Burke and O.J. Simpson to The Wire. The view from a former HBO employee who witnessed the channel’s rise to prominence firsthand.

When Chad Baker died from a lethal combination of cocaine and heroin, prosecutors charged Tommy Kosto, his friend and fellow drug user, with killing him—a tactic from the Reagan-era war on drugs that is gaining popularity around the country.

Christianity formed my deepest instincts, and I have been walking away from it for half my life.

An ode to the Bee Gees' strange, successful career.

“The pitch meeting kicked off with one Nike official accidentally addressing Stephen as 'Steph-on.' ... It got worse from there. A PowerPoint slide featured Kevin Durant's name, presumably left on by accident, presumably residue from repurposed materials.”

Schaeffer Cox, who is accused of plotting to kill State Troopers and a federal judge, shifted rapidly from a Ron Paul campaign worker and Tea Party activist to a hardcore militia leader. His conspiracy revealed, mainstream Alaskan politicians are scrambling to distance themselves from their ties to Cox.

Adapting from his book The Gun, Chivers traces how the design and proliferation of small arms, originating from both the Pentagon and the Russian army, rerouted the 20th century.

A suitcase was smuggled from Spain to Mexico during the Spanish Civil War containing negatives from three photographers would later become legends and all die in war zones. The suitcase disappeared.