Kevin Wheatcroft owns the world’s largest collection of Nazi memorabilia. And he’s suddenly eager to show it off.

The author was living in a friend’s basement after a bad breakup, unable to eat. Then he had lunch with Jacques Pépin.

What it’s like to be a first responder amid the rise of synthetic marijuana.

Meet Ben Discoe, a programmer who did it from October 2011 to November 2012.

She was an overnight YouTube success. Then she tried to make a TV show.

A culture war is raging between the people diversifying science fiction and the men who’d like to roll that back.

The former governor of Massachusetts wants to remove the stigma from electric shock treatments. They saved Kitty’s life.

He had the mind of a scholar, but he always insisted he didn’t want to be one.

The history of canis lupus in America, up to the present day.

The disgraced former FIFA president tries to defend himself while eating boiled beef.

The story of Jeffrey Fowle, an Ohio man who tried to smuggle a Bible into North Korea.

The Philippines is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a journalist, especially if you’re in talk radio.

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

The EPA called it the most severe exposure to a hazardous material in American history. The only people in Libby, Montana, who didn’t see it coming were the victims.

How Atlanta-born Davido, the son of a wealthy Nigerian businessman, hopes to break the international market with his brand of Nigerian pop.

Telephone poles began to appear around the same time that white Americans started lynching black Americans.

How a 63-year-old country singer went from a Nashville homeless shelter to #1 on the Swedish charts in under a year.

As a child, Hugo Lucitante was brought to America from a tiny jungle village in Ecuador. His heart’s still back home.

Justice isn’t so easy to come by when an American soldier stationed abroad is accused of murder.

An ode to Juiceboxxx, a 27-year-old rapper from Milwaukee no one’s ever heard of.

A Kiwi entrepreneur is leading a revolution in recreational drugs: he’s trying to make them safe.

A man’s love of pigeons leads him to build a Ponzi scheme out of birds.

She’s 80 now, working 13 hour days, and still won’t take so much as a reporter’s hand to cross the stream.

Joseph Mitchell used composites in his non-fiction, invented characters and added flourishes to his facts. Does it matter?

Kidnappers in Mexico have changed their business model from retail to wholesale—instead of extorting a handful of rich families, they are targeting thousands of undocumented migrants.