Heartbreak and heroics at the World Ploughing Championships

Texas juries send people to death row by making predictions about future violence. Racial bias has often played a troubling role. In the 1970s, one Supreme Court case paved the way.

Qaddafi’s son is alive. And he wants to take Libya back.

What the internet looks like to someone who spent the past six years in an Iranian prison.

Phil Kennedy set out to build the ultimate brain-computer interface. In the process, he almost lost his mind.

How KFC brought fried chicken to China and Africa as U.S. sales slumped.

In an Oklahoma City neighborhood usually left off city maps, the federal government is implementing its $300 million anti-poverty plan: teaching poor Americans how to get married.

We now know that most mass extinctions in Earth’s history were caused by the same thing. What we don’t know is when it will happen next.

The inside story of an improbable team of divers, a near-impossible plan and the rescue of 12 boys from a Thai cave.

The evolution and economics of English football.

A profile of the publisher of Screw, who died this week.

How our memories become contaminated by inaccuracies.

An essay on the wounded woman.

An essay on the pitcher, friendship and death.

On Joni Mitchell and canons.

On David Milch; Yale fraternity brother of George W. Bush, literature professor, longtime junkie, creator of NYPD Blue, Deadwood (which was in production when this profile was written), and the forthcoming racetrack-set HBO series Luck.

It was once a widely accepted way of explaining why some children struggled to read and write. But in recent years, some experts have begun to question the existence of dyslexia itself.

Near America’s largest coal-fired power plant, toxins are showing up in drinking water and people have fallen ill. Thousands of pages of internal documents show how one giant energy company plans to avoid the cleanup costs for coal ash.

This past Memorial Day weekend, Steven T. Florio, the president and CEO of Conde Nast Publications, made a dramatic change at The New Yorker, the most illustrious of the 17 magazines he runs for billionaire S.I. "Si" Newhouse Jr. He fired his own brother.

After his wife disappears, Hans Reiser’s defense contacts a Wired writer who they believe can help explain the world of groundbreaking code, video games, and sci-fi that defines Reiser’s existence.

On the constantly evolving definition of insider trading and the lingering question of how inside traders should be punished.

The story of former Vikings linebacker Fred McNeill and the lasting impact of his concussions.

Why domestic violence is even worse if the abuser is a cop.