After years of sexual abuse by a neighbor, a teenager takes matters into his own hands.

One man describes his family’s tradition of delivering rhyming couplets at celebrations.

On the day of the earthquake, two men went into Haiti’s Soccer Federation headquarters. Only one came out.

April Savino, a teenage homeless runaway, lived in Grand Central Terminal from 1984 until 1987 when she committed suicide on the steps of a nearby church.

Before embarking on dangerous rock climbs, Matt Samet would use whiskey to wash down powerful prescription tranquilizers. A first-person account of extreme addiction.

For the members of UCLA’s undocumented immigrant club, going to school means fighting for an education most students take for granted.

An interview with Clay Shirky on “why no medium has ever survived the indifference of 25-year-olds.”

An excerpt from a new biography explores the trio of tragedies that struck Dahl’s family just as his career was taking off.

Slumdog Millionaire, the 2008 Mumbai attacks, and the arrival of “New India” in the American imagination.

On the elegance and utility of the rice cooker.

Thirty years ago, few people had ever heard of ADD. ‘Early onset depression’ might become a common diagnosis long before 2040.

On the golden anniversary of her first trip to study chimps, an ode to Jane Goodall.

A profile of Sorkin, who wrote The Social Network. “I don’t feel like a nerd,” he says, “but I think I understand them.”

The story of how Washington blew its best shot to do something on climate change.

On the set of Afghanistan’s first soap opera and at home with its cast.

Anxiety, weight, general well-being—how the first nine months determine the rest of your life.

A profile of Rafael Pérez, an infamously corrupt LAPD officer and the inspiration behind the Vic Mackey character on The Shield.

A trip to Râmnicu Vâlcea, a town of 120,000 where the primary (and lucrative) industry is Internet scams.

The bizarre tale–and unlikely turnaround–of an NHL player who tried to have his youth coach murdered.

The life and death of a reporter.

An open letter on Grand Theft Auto 5 and aging out of the Rockstar Games franchise.

Sex in the NBA in the wake of Magic Johnson’s HIV announcement.

On simplicity, self-reliance and refusing to cooperate with “the apparatus of secrecy” that surrounds online surveillance.

A decorated college track coach, forced to resign because of an affair she had with a athlete 10 years before, fights back.