We devote vast resources to intensive, one-off procedures, while starving the kind of steady, intimate care that often helps people more.

In Argentina, where the fútbol underworld controls everything from t-shirt vending to murder, and “rowdy gangs” have turned the stadium into a battleground.

How the United States came to spend more on defense than all the other nations of the world combined.

An 88-year-old woman is taken from her Wisconsin farmhouse. Inside the investigation to find her.

On Julian Jaynes, a Princeton psychologist who told the story of how humans learned to think.

On Ilya Zhitomirskiy, an idealistic young developer who committed suicide 18 months after founding Diaspora, his well-publicized, open-source alternative to Facebook.

The author, an abortion counselor, was 40 and pregnant when a conflicted Catholic woman came to her clinic.

Why the head of Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey hired a former CIA agent to ruin a freelance writer’s career.

Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe build the most powerful Tea Party organization in the country. Then a feud threatened to undo everything.

“Violence, being instrumental by nature, is rational to the extent that it is effective in reaching the end which must justify it.”

Basketball on a Crow reservation and a player named Jonathan Takes Enemy trying to escape.

The people who go missing while crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, and the people who attempt to identify their remains.

A pair of gamblers and a glitch too good to last.

Vivien Thomas was paid a janitor’s wage, never went to college, and still became a legend in the field of heart surgery.

The lives of Sue and Hector Badeau, who felt a calling to raise children and adopted twenty of them.

A small town in Nebraska promised a warm welcome to a family of Katrina evacuees. It didn’t last.

The men who say they’ll try to save the once-bustling gambling resort town.

Edward Luttwak is a military strategist, a classical scholar, a cattle rancher, and an adviser to presidents, prime ministers, and the Dalai Lama.

The final days of the last Navy SEAL to die in Afghanistan.

Winona Ryder has always been trapped in her own anticipatory nostalgia, and the public has always wanted to keep her there.

“I’ll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear. I mean really, no fear!”

How Dennis from Head of the Class grew up to be the Aaron Sorkin of tween television.

How Lalit Modi built a billion-dollar cricket empire—only to be exiled from his sport and homeland.

“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.”

The birth of the Beastie Boys—an oral history on the 25th anniversary of Licensed to Ill.