After 85 years, antibiotics are growing impotent. So what will medicine, agriculture and everyday life look like if we lose these drugs entirely?

Adventures in acedia, from Aquinas to Bartleby.

Skyrocketing prices for yarchagumba, a rare fungus prized as an aphrodisiac, has led to Nepali villagers to turf wars—and possibly murder.

How a major American company helped bring Charles Taylor to power in Liberia.

Inside Roger Goodell’s troubling (or wildly successful, depending on who you ask) tenure as NFL commissioner.

In 1916, a down-on-its-luck traveling circus hung its star elephant.

How Madden NFL went from a programmer’s childhood dream to a $3 billion business.

Who was Omar Mateen?

Activists hoped President Obama would fight for stronger regulation. Eight years later, they’re still waiting.

We know that certain programs can help prevent gun deaths among black men. No one in Washington seems to care.

Rob Billot spent eight years defending corporate clients in environmental cases. Then Wilbur Tennant called.

How did a tenure-track professor wind up selling his plasma? A story about debt.

Officers can lie to juries or brutally beat civilians and still keep their jobs.

A 23-year-old living in Chile was suddenly attacked and buried alive by her roommate. She later learned she wasn’t his first – or last – victim.

How an obscure legal document turned New York’s court system into a debt-collection machine.

As Friday’s deadline approaches, a federal employee wonders: “How am I supposed to dig out?”

When authorities fail families, Lissa Yellowbird-Chase steps in.

On sex education and why people are still so uncomfortable talking about it.

A confrontation with masculinity gone awry.

An amateur sleuth tracks runners who cheat. But how far should he go?

A junior Microsoft engineer figured out a nearly perfect Bitcoin generation scheme.

America’s most fearless satirist has seen his wildest fictions become reality.

The North Korean dictator kidnaps a famous actress and her film director husband, then invites them to dinner to chat about it.