A profile of RZA, hip-hop artist and kung fu film director.

A profile of Sir Dr. NakaMats, who claims to have invented over 3,000 things, including the floppy disk and karaoke machine.

How the United States came to spend more on defense than all the other nations of the world combined.

Throughout their troubled lives, identical twins William and Chris Cormier shared a preternatural bond. Then the body of a Florida journalist ended up in their backyard.

A profile of the Navy Seal who killed Osama bin Laden and came home to a life in shambles.

How mergers between Catholic institutions and secular hospitals are changing the nature of health care.

How Adalia Rose, a six-year-old with an early-aging disorder called progeria, became both an Internet celebrity and the target of online vitriol.

On Julian Jaynes, a Princeton psychologist who told the story of how humans learned to think.

One year before his death, Mickey Mantle describes a life of drinking.

A son’s memory of the father he lost at 13, excerpted from The Magical Stranger.

Why the head of Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey hired a former CIA agent to ruin a freelance writer’s career.

A profile of Dennis Rodman today.

On the dangerous glut of visitors looking to conquer Mt. Everest, where there is sometimes a two-hour wait to climb the Hillary Step.

On cushy jobs in web development, deeply un-cushy opportunities in writing, and our assumptions about the value of labor.

What the writer’s newly revealed letters mean for her long-debated legacy.

“Violence, being instrumental by nature, is rational to the extent that it is effective in reaching the end which must justify it.”

The story of a risky management style gone bust.

With the first on the scene of the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 disaster.

A profile of DJ Larry Levan, whose sets at New York’s Paradise Garage in the 80s had an almost religious appeal.

On the murder of a popular bar owner in a ghost town near the Mexican border.

The saga of Naji Mansour.

A profile of Chuck Blazer, “the man who built — and bilked — American soccer.”

A profile of Model View Culture founder Shanley Kane.

A profile of Florida’s former (and perhaps future) governor.