A gender studies professor, diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, decides to take control of her death.

The difficulty of catching a “cocaine trafficker with his hands on the country’s levers of power.”

A profile of Jim Henson before the release of the first Muppet movie.

The life and death of Marla Ruzicka, a 28-year-old aid worker in Baghdad.

On a U.S. soldier burned to the verge of death and the virtual-reality video game doctors used as treatment when he came home.

On a young Arnold Schwarzenegger and the body-building culture of Venice Beach in the 1970s.

The story of a young man on the run in the slum he dreams of escaping.

An artifact from the height of the uproar:

Behind the tawdriest of headlines, there's a woman I wouldn't mind bringing home to mom.

A writer’s trip home to Hot Springs, Arkansas, and the racetrack inextricably linked with the histories of his family and his hometown.

An investigation of the county’s Tactical Narcotics Team and, in particular, a Christmas-themed sting dubbed “Santa’s Helper”:

A two-month investigation by New Times has found that Santa's Helper was a colossal waste of police resources. Of the 112 suspects arrested, 73 people were charged only with misdemeanor pot possession. The vast majority of the busted pot smokers were either released within 24 hours or avoided jail by promising to show up in court. Of the 73 alleged tokers, 68 of them — including Dante Level and his siblings — had no violent criminal record. If they were guilty of anything, it was smoking a joint on their own front porch.

A 7,000-word anatomy of the chaotic 9 minutes after the U.S. Supreme Court issued its health care ruling.

How a group of men with nicknames like “Emperor” and “Spear Carrier” tipped the balance in South Sudan’s fight for independence.

On the Calorie Restriction movement, the scientifically-supported belief that the key to a very long life is to eat as little as possible.

The inside story of how an ABC nature shoot in Africa end up producing  a snuff film.

How the daily e-mail from Mike Allen, Politico’s star reporter, has become a morning ritual for Washington’s elite.

A 1970 review of Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider.

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

Should modern medicine shift its end-of-life priorities, focusing less on staving off death and more on improving a patient’s last days?

When Bob Dylan met Allen Ginsberg; a chapter from Sean Wilentz’s forthcoming Bob Dylan in America.

A new strain of educational thought (and practice) involves embracing the technology of the moment - which means bringing video games into the classroom.

At three NYC comedy theater/schools, students and students-turned-instructors (a “benign pyramid scheme”) pursue the elusive simulacrum of human interaction that is longform improvisation.

A group of childhood friends, two of whom had already climbed Everest, finds tragedy on Mont Blanc.

How two Italian teenagers hacked the Soviet space program and may have heard the dying breaths of a lost cosmonaut.

You watch your best friend jump off a bridge trying to end his life. What do you do? Vino Richemond jumped in after him.

On Ayn Rand becoming a cult hero to Wall Street insiders and others items that make Matt Taibbi angry.