What happened to the minds behind Napster, Gnutella, WinAmp, and BitTorrent after their creations irrevocably changed business and culture.

On Arielle Holmes, a burgeoning actress who was, literally, plucked from the streets.

Maurice Lerner missed his shot at the majors and landed in the Rhode Island mafia.

Paul Phua rose from a Borneo numbers runner to being the biggest bookmaker in the world. Then he found poker.

On the parasitic relationship between oil and the stock market.

How the Congressional baseball shooting didn’t become the deadliest political assassination in American history.

Two angry men submerged themselves in the far-right internet. One committed murder. The other walked away. Why?

Riding along with the cowgirls bringing women’s bronc riding back to the rodeo.

The black men from Pittsburgh who made up America’s original paramedic corps wanted to make history and save lives—starting with their own.

Xi Jinping is using artificial intelligence to enhance his government’s totalitarian control—and he’s exporting this technology to regimes around the globe.

Between 1920 and 2020, the average human life span doubled. How did we do it? Science mattered—but so did activism.

Fifty years ago, a police shooting set in motion a decades-long chase across the American West.

A profile of singer-songwriter Will Oldham.

He has settled into character as an uncanny troubadour, singing a sort of transfigured country music, and he has become, in his own subterranean way, a canonical figure. Johnny Cash covered him, Björk has championed him (she invited him to appear on the soundtrack of “Drawing Restraint 9”), and Madonna, he suspects, has quoted him (her song “Let It Will Be” seems to borrow from his “O Let It Be,” though he says, “I’m fully prepared to accept that it’s a coincidence”).

A man in Puerto Rico stumbles on a brick of cocaine, and rather than sell it he decides to bury it. Others, hearing his story, cook up a plan to retrieve it.

There is someone whose job it is to try to extract royalty money from anyone who plays music in a place of business. Most people do not react well to this request.

Last year, an Mossad hit squad traveled to Dubai to assassinate a Hamas leader. They completed their mission, but were later humiliated when a twenty-seven minute video of their movements was posted online. How their cover got blown.

Suspecting he had CTE and that it would eventually kill him, a former high school football player kept a diary of what was has happening to his brain.

They travel America in vans and RVs stopping at Targets and Wal-Marts in search of rare soap and coveted toys to stock Amazon’s fulfillment warehouses.

Sooner or later a technology capable of wiping out human civilization might be invented. How far would we go to stop it?

Bob Rodriguez, the oracular mutual fund manager with the best record over the last quarter century and two correctly-predicted crashes under his belt, says another spectacular crash is on its way within five years.

A woman is clogging the Lehigh County court system with divorce filings against David Lee Roth and there is nothing the legal system can do to stop her.

Buckminster Fuller reconsidered.