What happened after the first openly gay player in Division I men’s basketball came out.

Kelvin Villanueva had lived in America for 15 years. He had four kids. He had a job. Then he was stopped for a broken taillight.

In an era when America’s great sportswriters were as big as the athletes they covered, W.C. Heinz may have been the best of the bunch.

Why do we honor dead soldiers rather than the fighters who deserted and the activists who demanded peace?

A refugee survives the Rwandan genocide and finds a future in Atlanta.

Long a cult favorite in comedy, Bob Odenkirk has finally found wider recognition—and respect—through a shady character named Saul.

She was not just a poet, she was an “event” in American literature all by herself.

The everyday violence of some urban neighburhoods in America takes its own emotional toll.

Tracing the 3,339 miles the Canadian ran in 1980, on one good leg and one prosthetic limb.

Playing beer pong with David Axelrod—and other scenes from the lives of young, high-profile aides in the Obama White House.

In 1920, Harvard University officials suspected that some students were gay. So they kicked them all out.

How $100 million in diamonds, gold, and jewelry disappeared from Antwerp Diamond Center’s super-secure vault.

In 2007, Harrah’s made 5.6% of its total Las Vegas revenue off of a single person: Terrance Watanabe.

An email dialogue between David Gates and Jonathan Lethem on writing fiction in the age of online experiences.

On a book of photographs shot by Leni Riefenstahl in the 1950s and 1960s depicting an African tribe.

How virtual worlds like Ultima Online form economies and the sellers who make a living in digital goods.

A veteran black Metro columnist, adrift in a rapidly shifting D.C., rankles an incoming generation of gentrificationists.

The diary of a Scranton, PA National Guardsmen tasked with guarding the highest profile prisoner in U.S history: a surprisingly amiable Saddam Hussein.

J.D. Salinger on the beaches on D-Day, marching through concentration camps, and in liberated Paris.

Emmanuel “Toto” Constant, the founder of a barbaric Haitian paramilitary group, vanished from Port-au-Prince and resurfaced as a real estate agent in Queens.

A roundtable on sexism in Hollywood and comedy.

Park Service and Forest Service employees face sexual harassment and assault in America’s wild places.

The revival of a landmark 1921 musical opens a door on the deep and twisted roots of black performance in America.

How three friends and a team of frat brothers made a fortune smuggling people along the most heavily patrolled stretch of highway in Texas.

In Peru, an unsolved killing has brought the Mashco Piro into contact with the outside world.