“Let them say what they want. It’s not about me.”

A women’s shelter in Afghanistan protects its inhabitants from their own families.

How he made big and early bets on new technologies—and won.

Mattathias Rath made a fortune selling cure-all vitamins in Europe before moving his business to South Africa, where he launched a massive campaign against retroviral AIDS medications and in favor of his own vitamin cocktails. When scientists, AIDS non-profits, and even Medecins San Frontieres objected, he sued.

On a childhood fascination with the mid-18th century battle.

George Spahn and his California ranch, before and after the Manson family showed up.

In Colorado and beyond, a negotiated surrender in the war on drugs.

Bob Voulgaris and his math prodigy sidekick attempt to create the perfect betting algorithm.

How to drive across America in less than 32 hours and 7 minutes.

A dispatch from Eloise Woods, a natural burial ground where bodies are consigned directly to the earth.

Paul Newman’s will held some unpleasant surprises for his daughters.

The battle between 1975’s biggest shows.

How corporations are using the First Amendment to destroy government regulation.

For centuries, a little town in Belgium has been treating the mentally ill. Why are its medieval methods so successful?

The coordinated government attack on queer Russia.

The web has revolutionized communications and commerce, but what does it mean for art?

Protests against the Putin regime are already drawing over 100,000 in sub-zero weather; what will they become when spring arrives?

Ed Rosenthal recounts the six days he got lost in Joshua Tree National Park.

Women who kill their newborns usually claim to have been in denial about their pregnancies. Can you carry a child to term without realizing it?

Immune systems don’t make for clean narratives, even as we expect them to keep us pure.

We are all going to die. So what does it look like?

Uncovering the real story behind Capote’s Hand-Carved Coffins.

The hockey legend’s new life as a medical icon for a questionable stem-cell treatment.