A profile of Jamie Dimon as he became CEO of JP Morgan Chase.

A profile of Rei Kawakubo, an artist of few words who changed women’s fashion.

Li Dao, a young Minnesota nurse, appeared in suicide chat rooms, contacted the most desperate, and made pacts to die with them via webcam. After some in the forum caught on, Dao disappeared; or rather, Dao had never existed at all. She was a middle-aged man. And he may have encouraged and witnessed dozens of live suicides.

Hervé Falciani, a computer engineer working at HSBC, stole the bank’s list of secret accounts. But was he out to expose tax cheats or get rich himself? Perhaps both.

The agonies of being overweight—or running a diet company—in a culture that likes to pretend it only cares about health, not size.

The developer responsible for the tallest residential building in New York—the penthouse just sold for $90 million—lives in a two-story house in Queens.

On the motivations and techniques of a prolific book thief who “built a vast collection of rare works, most of which he will never read and no one will ever see.”

The mistakes and the struggles behind America’s coronavirus tragedy.

In eight malls spread across three continents, kids get to try out grown-up jobs in corporate-sponsored theme parks. Welcome to KidZania—coming soon to the U.S.

Bill Bradley was a Rhodes scholar, a three-term U.S. Senator and a presidential candidate. But before all that, he was the best college basketball player in the country.

A profile of Scooter Braun.

An oral history of Cheers.

A profile of photographer Richard Avedon from early in his career.

A profile of Shaun White.

An Israeli journalist’s six years of conversation with Ariel Sharon, who died Saturday.

Investigating ska’s moment of conception.

A profile of Steve Buscemi.

A profile of Hugo Chávez, two years into his presidency.

How American higher education became a summer camp doubling as a debt factory.

A profile of environmental activist Van Jones.

A profile of director Sofia Coppola.

Treasure hunters still scour Lower Silesia in search of legendary wartime riches.