On BP’s actions after the oil spill.

Why the boom in scientific progress stalled.

Can the Internet be archived?

The Vancouver riots and an unforgettable image.

Why the U.S. Senate gets so little done.

Memories from journalists he mentored.

Nine days in Wuhan.

Inside Andrew Cuomo’s toxic workplace.

A sober look at the Senator.

Life in the French Foreign Legion.

On the increasingly dangerous situation for journalists in Syria.

The Stanford Prison Experiment, revisited 40 years later.

Spotify’s bid to remodel an industry.

Where will predictive text take us?

“What follows is my attempt, based on a few increasingly hostile exchanges and a close reading of his terrible book, not only to examine why Mariotti is currently jobless but to explain why, in a sane world, he should forever remain that way. I present this as a cautionary tale for other sportswriters, both young and old.”

A week on the campaign trail in the coffin-shaped Immortality Bus with Zoltan Istvan, the presidential candidate for the Transhumanist Party.

For the last two decades, the varied personalities behind the Vidocq Society—retired cops, sketch artists, FBI agents—have gathered in Philadelphia to tackled cold-case homicides over lunch. They claim to have solved more than half.

It didn't matter if these clubs were in Cleveland, Portland, Corpus Christi or Baton Rouge—if it was a nightclub, the owners were the Mob. For a good forty years the Mob controlled American show business.

Sex in the Olympic Village.

Noorullah Aminya was once a valuable ally to the American military. Then, with the Taliban going after his family, he attempted to defect and spent three years in federal detention. To be granted asylum, he needed to convince a judge that the Taliban rule Afghanistan in full. Which would mean America has lost the war.

An experiment in public defense.

How Andrés Sepúlveda rigged elections across Latin America.

How Michelle Bachmann became a GOP front-runner.