The story of a risky management style gone bust.

On the death of NBA star Reggie Lewis.

The saga of Naji Mansour.

But not for want of programmers trying.

A profile of author William T. Vollmann.

How Gary Gygax, a semi-employed shoe repairman, built and lost the Dungeons & Dragons empire.

Why America, and every other street in Massachusetts, runs (or will eventually run) on Dunkin’.

The story of heiress Huguette Clark, who spent her life avoiding people and collecting dolls.

Vivien Thomas was paid a janitor’s wage, never went to college, and still became a legend in the field of heart surgery.

A couple tries to give away their house in Flint, Michigan – but no one wants to live there anymore.

The lives of Sue and Hector Badeau, who felt a calling to raise children and adopted twenty of them.

As the birds decline, one Icelandic island keeps throwing a rowdy, boozy puffin festival.

A sociologist’s controversial first book and the debate over who gets to speak for whom.

How a young Afghan trucking-company owner became spectacularly rich.

How Lalit Modi built a billion-dollar cricket empire—only to be exiled from his sport and homeland.

During her brief tenure as governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin was a genuinely effective, bipartisan legislator. What went wrong?

On his legacy, his impact on California, and why “saints should be judged guilty until proven innocent.”

The story of a Marine who saved innumerable lives, then got fired.

On the dying city of Port Arthur, Texas, and one man’s fight to save it.

A profile of Mike Judge, creator of the now-resuscitated Beavis and Butthead.

Inside the five-year (so far) production of the Ilya Khrzhanovsky film Dau:

Khrzhanovsky came up with the idea of the Institute not long after preproduction on Dau began in 2006. He wanted a space where he could elicit the needed emotions from his cast in controlled conditions, twenty-four hours a day. The set would be a panopticon. Microphones would hide in lighting fixtures (as they would in many a lamp in Stalin's USSR), allowing Khrzhanovsky to shoot with multiple film cameras from practically anywhere — through windows, skylights, and two-way mirrors. The Institute's ostensible goal was to re-create '50s and '60s Moscow, home to Dau's subject, Lev Landau. A Nobel Prize–winning physicist, Landau significantly advanced quantum mechanics with his theories of diamagnetism, superfluidity, and superconductivity. He also tapped epic amounts of ass.

The low-key swingers of sleepy Amarillo, Texas find themselves relentlessly harassed by a militant Christian group.

An oral history of The Right Stuff.