Slumdog Millionaire, the 2008 Mumbai attacks, and the arrival of “New India” in the American imagination.

On the elegance and utility of the rice cooker.

Thirty years ago, few people had ever heard of ADD. ‘Early onset depression’ might become a common diagnosis long before 2040.

On the golden anniversary of her first trip to study chimps, an ode to Jane Goodall.

A profile of Sorkin, who wrote The Social Network. “I don’t feel like a nerd,” he says, “but I think I understand them.”

The story of how Washington blew its best shot to do something on climate change.

On the set of Afghanistan’s first soap opera and at home with its cast.

Anxiety, weight, general well-being—how the first nine months determine the rest of your life.

A profile of Rafael Pérez, an infamously corrupt LAPD officer and the inspiration behind the Vic Mackey character on The Shield.

On Sam Cooke, theme parties, and the importance of McDonald’s-related jingles when street performing.

A trip to Râmnicu Vâlcea, a town of 120,000 where the primary (and lucrative) industry is Internet scams.

The bizarre tale–and unlikely turnaround–of an NHL player who tried to have his youth coach murdered.

The life and death of a reporter.

An open letter on Grand Theft Auto 5 and aging out of the Rockstar Games franchise.

Sex in the NBA in the wake of Magic Johnson’s HIV announcement.

On simplicity, self-reliance and refusing to cooperate with “the apparatus of secrecy” that surrounds online surveillance.

A decorated college track coach, forced to resign because of an affair she had with a athlete 10 years before, fights back.

Two floors of a building in prime Brooklyn for $1000 a month seemed too good to be true. It was.

There are 1.7 million active Uber riders in London, about half the daily ridership of the Tube. Three years ago, there were 5,000.

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

A profile of Ken Griffey, Jr., six years after he last played a baseball game.

The lip-syncing app Musical.ly claims that it has signed up 50% of American teens.

“Poor white Americans’ current crisis shouldn’t have caught the rest of the country as off guard as it has.”

In the throes of an epidemic, researchers investigate how to inoculate against the disease.