An ambivalent look at Google Glass, the “Model T of wearable computing.”

Allegations of child sexual and Satanic ritual abuse overtake an Austin suburb.

The death of a runner and the “ongoing culture war between fitness enthusiasts and automobiles.”

A profile of Eve Babitz – muse, writer, LA party girl.

On the burrneshas of Albania.

“With the rise of factory farming, milk is now a most unnatural operation.”

A profile of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.

An oral history of the Playboy Clubs.

On the talent, ego, and late father of Bryant Gumbel.

The unintended consequences of American funding in Pakistan.

A bridge, a preventable leap, and the politics of barriers for “suicide hotspots.”

An investigation of the American sex trafficking industry.

A profile of GOP hopeful Jon Huntsman.

A search for the “armpit of America” ends in Battle Mountain, Nevada.

The behind-the-scenes publishing saga of Joseph Heller’s 1961 novel.

Inside the twisted, litigious world of software patents.

On why routinizing space travel has failed.

A profile of Barry Bonds published as the steroid talk intensified.

An oral history of the soap opera.

On witnessing the transformation of George W. Bush over 25 years.

On cell phones and the decline of public space.

One of the great irritations of modern technology is that when some new development has made my life palpably worse and is continuing to find new and different ways to bedevil it, I'm still allowed to complain for only a year or two before the peddlers of coolness start telling me to get over it already Grampaw--this is just the way life is now.

On Jeff Bezos, Amazon, and the genesis of the Kindle.

When your family is murdered, and the home you had made together is destroyed, and you yourself are beaten and left for dead — as happened to Bill Petit on the morning of July 23, 2007 — it may as well be the end of the world. It is hard to see how a man survives the end of the world. The basics of life — waking up, walking, talking — become alien tasks, and almost impossibly heavy, as you are more dead than alive. Just how does a man go about surviving such a thing? How does a man go on?

On the brutal killing of a high school girl in British Columbia.

The rewards and pitfalls of selling haunted objects.