Barack Obama on Africa, Putin and the gap between what CEOs tell him over lunch and what they tell their lobbyists.

How an amateur photographer documented the greatest achievement in track and field history.

How a woman whose muscles disappeared discovered she shared a disease with a muscle-bound Olympic medalist.

Behind the character Ursula in The Little Mermaid was a legendary drag queen from Baltimore named Divine.

Without fanfare—indeed, with some misgivings about its new status—China has just overtaken the United States as the world’s largest economy.

An innocent man was executed – in 1761. Voltaire got on the case.

An industry responds to the recession by rebranding the carrot as anything but vegetable.

The search for a missing ultramarathoner in New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness, and the life that lead him there.

The Onion’s Keith Phipps retraces the route Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda followed in Easy Rider.

The Great Recession’s impact on the legalized prostitution industry in Nevada: more hookers, fewer johns.

Around 60 people in the world share a condition called “highly superior autobiographical memory.” They remember absolutely everything.

West Virginia has the highest overdose death rate in the country. Locals are fighting to save their neighbors—and their towns—from destruction.

What happened after an unarmed 18-year-old named Ramarley Graham was shot and killed by a New York City police officer.

How Vivitrol, a little-known anti-addiction drug, became the mandatory treatment for opioid abuse in drug courts across the United States.

The military wants future super-soldiers to control robots with their thoughts.

“The caller reminded me I had written about her killing three decades earlier.”

Inside the bizarre, secret meeting between Malcolm X and the Ku Klux Klan.

A husband’s stroke, the Australian bushfires, and a trip to the Great Barrier Reef.

The case against Jonathan Pollard, an American who spied for Israel.

An investigation into violence against Mexican citizens by the U.S. Border Patrol.

During World War II, the indigenous Aleut people were forced into camps. 10% died.

On Billy Joel’s sardonic gloom.

A combat veteran trains to be a college football placekicker.

A new era in the search for life on Mars.

Encounters with Albert DeSalvo, the self-confessed Boston Strangler.