The former governor of Massachusetts wants to remove the stigma from electric shock treatments. They saved Kitty’s life.

Susan Hawk was the first woman elected as Dallas County district attorney. She also suffers from depression.

How a 63-year-old country singer went from a Nashville homeless shelter to #1 on the Swedish charts in under a year.

As a child, Hugo Lucitante was brought to America from a tiny jungle village in Ecuador. His heart’s still back home.

An ode to Juiceboxxx, a 27-year-old rapper from Milwaukee no one’s ever heard of.

A French reporter went undercover as potential “caliphette” and recieved a marriage proposal from a senior ISIS commander.

Three siblings from Chicago ran away to become jihadis. Is it fair to try them as terrorists?

Kidnappers in Mexico have changed their business model from retail to wholesale—instead of extorting a handful of rich families, they are targeting thousands of undocumented migrants.

From equipment that doesn’t fit to an ill-equipped VA medical system.

Lessons learned about white-collar crime from an economist turned bagel salesman whose business relied entirely on the honor system.

An artifact from the height of the uproar:

Behind the tawdriest of headlines, there's a woman I wouldn't mind bringing home to mom.

An essay on the “history, meaning and practice of suicide, from third-century Christian death cults to the Aurora Bridge.”

On conspiracy theories in sports, from the ‘85 NBA draft lottery to Michael Phelps’ gold medal performance in the 100-meter butterfly.

How the daily e-mail from Mike Allen, Politico’s star reporter, has become a morning ritual for Washington’s elite.

On his journey from phenom to champion to wannabe rock star to Emmy-winning commentator, John McEnroe hasn’t changed much.

The Great Recession meant great things for Nick Popovich, who gets paid by banks to take planes back from hard-up millionaires.

When Bob Dylan met Allen Ginsberg; a chapter from Sean Wilentz’s forthcoming Bob Dylan in America.

A Holocaust detective story: could a lampshade pulled from the ruins of Katrina really be Buchenwald artifact made of human remains?

How misdirected incentives in the bewildering medical supply industry keep innovative, life-saving equipment from reaching hospitals.

Foreign policy as architecture; how embassies went from lavish social hubs to reinforced strongholds.

What it takes to recover from a near-death brawl with a bear.

Guardians can sell the assets and control the lives of senior citizens without their consent—and reap a profit from it.

Inside the trailer park known as Little Mexico in Norwalk, Ohio in the wake of an ICE raid that separated children from their parents.

From HBO to ‘Star Wars’ to Shakespeare, he has discovered how to excel beyond tidy genres.