A profile of organizational psychologist Adam Grant, who argues that the key to success comes from helping others.

Why hundreds of Buddhist monks moved from Taiwan to Prince Edward Island, buying up thousands of acres of land in the process.

After being fired from both Nirvana and Soundgarden, Jason Everman joined the Special Forces.

How CREW and MUSTIE decide what books stay in a library's circulation.

How a bipolar diagnosis follows you from the top to the bottom of professional basketball.

Fifty years later, the men who stole priceless gems from the Museum of Natural History recall the crime.

How a group of farmers came to believe that their relatives were returning from the grave.

Baseball legend Lenny Dykstra’s on-field brilliance and private-life disasters, from drunk driving to failed investment and publishing ventures.

From pinball prohibition in 1940s NYC to Dave & Buster’s, the rise and fall of the American arcade.

A year and a half with Candace Desmond-Woods, whose husband, and Iraq war veteran, suffers from PTSD and alcoholism.

A Hells Angel informant’s path from destruction to redemption and back, and a family’s trouble with witness protection.

Adventures in acedia, from Aquinas to Bartleby.

The stories of the 109 black men who have played quarterback in the NFL, from Fritz Pollard to Russell Wilson.

On America’s relationship with the right to bear arms, from the Founding Fathers to the Black Panthers and the Ku Klux Klan.

A profile of Jill Abramson from her first weeks as executive editor of The New York Times.

A New York lawyer’s attempt to secure an American aid worker’s release from ISIS.

Lester Cotton’s transformation from reluctant football player to top Alabama recruit, and the hopes and dreams of a neighborhood that ride on his shoulders.

A women’s shelter in Afghanistan protects its inhabitants from their own families.

John Barrymore once had a totem pole on his Beverly Hills estate. But where did it come from?

A report from the oil boom in North Dakota, where unemployment is 3.4 percent and McDonald’s gives out $300 signing bonuses.

Inside the lives of Sri Lanka’s Tamils as they emerge from a multi-decade war that defined and nearly destroyed them.

The beginnings of the best-selling video game, from a chapter of David Kushner’s new book on the subject.

A report from Austin, Texas as it turns into a dot-com hotspot.

An Iowa dad’s surprisingly short path from commentor to screenwriter.

How an art project led to a visit from the U.S. Secret Service.