Memories from journalists he mentored.

Nine days in Wuhan.

Inside Andrew Cuomo’s toxic workplace.

On the Becket Fund, a little-known firm that has become the leading force in the fight for corporations seeking a religious exemption from covering employees’ birth control.

“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.

Judge Donna Scott Davenport oversees a juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, Tennessee, with a staggering history of jailing children. She said kids must face consequences, which rarely seem to apply to her or the other adults in charge.

An essay on BR Ambedkar, Mahatma Gandhi and the battle against caste in India.

John Georgelas was a military brat and drug enthusiast from Texas. Now he’s a prominent figure within the Islamic State.

A photographer captured the moment when a race organizer confronted a woman who’d snuck into the race.

The button that ruined the internet—and how to fix it.

Pictet, a 215-year-old firm rooted firmly in the past, finds tension adapting to the modern world.

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?

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.