From pinball prohibition in 1940s NYC to Dave & Buster’s, the rise and fall of the American arcade.

In search of the former boxing champ, who refuses to believe he has HIV.

Investigating San Francisco’s OneTaste, which promises personal and professional success through the practice of orgasmic meditation.

The homeless population of New York City is higher than it’s been in decades. Nobody seems to notice.

The realities of the fighting life.

The fight to vaccinate children in the border regions between Pakistan and Afghanistan as part of an attempt to eradicate polio worldwide.

An oral history project involving former IRA members becomes a prolonged court battle over a four-decade-old murder.

A barely drinking-age Green Day profiled shortly after the release of Dookie.

Spending time with the Tonya Harding Fan Club in the wake of the assault on Nancy Kerrigan.

How a group of vigilante cat-lovers seeking the hooded figure who suffocated a kitten in an internet video found a sadistic killer.

Thoughts on the current era of online anonymity.

A story written about Twitter and one its founders, Evan Williams, when the company’s chief source of revenue was subletting desks in their partially filled office.

How a herbalist who used to swim naked with Allen Ginsberg became one of conservative talk radio’s most vicious—and listened to—hosts.

On Sebastian Junger’s War and the documentary Restrepo by Tim Hetherington, who was killed in Libya yesterday.

Henry Luce and Time vs. Harold Ross and The New Yorker. What was at stake in the epic magazine rivalry of the 20th century?

On the “world’s largest social network that you probably haven’t yet heard of” and its enigmatic founder.

On the economics of the booming Somali pirate business, which is up 177 percent over last year.

How Thomas Drake, senior executive at the NSA, came to face some of the gravest charges that can be brought against an American citizen.

A field trip to the video gamey world of the modern trader.

The story of a small Latvian counterfeiting business that got far too big for its own good.

On Friday Night Lights as book, film, and TV show.

In Silicon Valley, up all night coding in the dorms with the aspiring Mark Zuckerbergs of tomorrow.

The history of – and recent controversy over – the diagnosis.

A profile of lifelong thief and 13-time escapee Chris Gay, aka “Little Houdini.”