A cook fights for his sight while reopening his famous restaurant.

A history of the first African American White House—and of what came next.

Looking for answers in India after a seeker disappears and his guide commits suicide.

Trump’s Commerce pick and a government by, and for, the super-rich.

The rise and fall of Mickey the Pope, the founder of a New York City marijuana delivery business.

On a former Louisiana preacher who converted to Atheism.

Joe Arridy had an IQ of 46. In 1939, he was executed for a crime he neither understood nor committed.

A day at the mall with the cast of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.

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

A profile of RZA, hip-hop artist and kung fu film director.

A 50-year medical riddle in Papua New Guinea and the man who made solving it his life’s work.

An interview with the Japanese artist, who has resided in a mental institution since committing herself in 1975.

A profile of Sir Dr. NakaMats, who claims to have invented over 3,000 things, including the floppy disk and karaoke machine.

How an obscure Australian judge and a hard-charging lawyer put the S&P on trial for the global financial collapse.

On the U.S. government’s pursuit of a legendary hacker.

The author travels to Dubai; Arab children see snow for the first time, which is made by a Kenyan.

On the late singer Judee Sill, the virtual cemetery site Find a Grave, and memorials in the age of the Twitter RIP.

In the highlands of Papua New Guinea, admist a mining boom, the public torture and killing of women accused of sorcery has returned.

How Adalia Rose, a six-year-old with an early-aging disorder called progeria, became both an Internet celebrity and the target of online vitriol.

Naffe, a young Republican, entered the belly of the political beast – and was nearly eaten.

A world-renowned physicist’s miscalculation.

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

On Hezbollah leader Imad Mughniyeh, “the world’s most wanted terrorist not named Osama bin Laden,” whose death five years ago remains a mystery.

The author visits Camp Trans, an annual protest organized after the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival evicted a transsexual woman.

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