Frank Firetti, a 54-year-old pool salesman in Virginia, and his fading American dream.

“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.

Love advice from a beloved aunt.

I try to call my Great Aunt Doris every day. She's ninety-years old and lives alone. I love her desperately and as she gets older, especially of late as she becomes more feeble, my love seems to be picking up velocity, overwhelming me almost, tinged as it is with panic -- I'm so afraid of losing her.

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.

The battle between 1975’s biggest shows.

The coordinated government attack on queer Russia.

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

Is a serial killer on the loose in Wellfleet? An investigation.

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?

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

Inside the conflict that has caused more deaths than any since WWII—with no end in sight.

The cops thought they had captured a fugitive. They had not. Elias Fishburne was a hairdresser from Maryland and was going to jail.

“He kissed me directly on the lips. I thought, ‘Oh my God, gross.’”

On chemo.

You never watched Shazaam.

Sean Spicer and a new era in the briefing room.

An interview with Solange.