Before embarking on dangerous rock climbs, Matt Samet would use whiskey to wash down powerful prescription tranquilizers. A first-person account of extreme addiction.

What it’s like to have thousands of fans who don’t recognize you.

Boko Haram has abducted thousands of children and trained them as soldiers. Four survivors tell their story.

“We are so screwed it’s beyond what most of us can imagine.”

An interview with Chase Strangio, who has won a series of landmark court cases in his role as ACLU deputy director for transgender justice.

Nick Denton is rebooting his entire Gawker empire—and his vision is drawn more from TV than blogs.

Every table at Damon Baehrel’s restaurant is booked until 2025. Or is it?

“Oh, I think I do overshare, and I sometime marvel that I do it. But it's sort of - in a way, it's my way of trying to understand myself. I don't know. I get it out of my head. It creates community when you talk about private things and you can find other people that have the same things. Otherwise, I don't know - I felt very lonely with some of the issues that I had or history that I had. And when I shared about it, I found that others had it, too.”

But despite all that has been promised, almost nothing has been built back in Haiti, better or otherwise. Within Port-au-Prince, some 3 million people languish in permanent misery, subject to myriad experiments at "fixing" a nation that, to those who are attempting it, stubbornly refuses to be fixed. Mountains of rubble remain in the streets, hundreds of thousands of people continue to live in weather-beaten tents, and cholera, a disease that hadn't been seen in Haiti for 60 years, has swept over the land, infecting more than a quarter million people.

What to do about climate change.

The fight for South Africa’s future.

On an affliction for the digital age, “Munchausen by internet.”

A family loses everything in the Fort McMurray wildfire.

Leaking from the inside, leaking from the outside.

On the master palindromist, Barry Duncan.

The tables have been turned – brutally – on Qaddafi loyalists.

“I created Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool.”

How Black America talks to the White House.

The neck-and-neck race that electrified the 1982 Boston Marathon.

How the English graphic designer set the course for contemporary visual culture.

The family history behind college football’s most talked-about player.

He wants to save classics from whiteness. Can the field survive?

On the murder at Lake Adelle.