They were the first black boys to integrate the South’s elite prep schools. They drove themselves to excel in an unfamiliar environment. But at what cost?

On medical acting and real pain.

Privacy, memory, data and advertising—how the modern web has become a Ponzi scheme and how we might be able to fix it.

Adriaan Vlok, a former apartheid leader, seeks redemption.

Fat doesn’t make us fat. So why has science led us to believe otherwise?

Texas’ modern day cattle rustlers and the twenty-seven lawmen who track them.

“I grew up idolizing my brother. Then he killed a man.”

The Southern Baptist church, which has its origins in a split over slavery, at an election-year crossroads.

How A+E’s CEO is navigating the new TV environment with hit shows like “Duck Dynasty.”

Humans play. So do animals. Perhaps that’s why we’re all here.

A 16-year-old journalist goes on tour with a band on top. The article that inspired Almost Famous.

The Civil War started 150 years ago today. A primer on how and why.

How slot machines snuck into the mall, along with money laundering, bribery, shootouts, and billions in profits.

The author was living in a friend’s basement after a bad breakup, unable to eat. Then he had lunch with Jacques Pépin.

Inside one woman’s often conflicted world.

How the new store is—and isn’t—changing Detroit.

A man in a small town in India builds local power by owning the only computer in his village.

Mamoru Samuragochi’s story turned out to be too good to be true.

One man’s quest to witness the “Bison Cull” in Yellowstone National Park.

Lessons learned about white-collar crime from an economist turned bagel salesman whose business relied entirely on the honor system.

How the author became tangled up with an international con man who may or may not have murdered several people.

In post-Shock and Awe Baghdad, the relationship between a war reporter and his Iraqi guide falls apart.

Guy Gentile flipped, and flipped again.