On Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps, who died this week.

How a poet and an architect rescued a nation’s riches.

On Ilya Zhitomirskiy, an idealistic young developer who committed suicide 18 months after founding Diaspora, his well-publicized, open-source alternative to Facebook.

What happens when a 26-year-old Kentucky resident decides to investigate a rape case from his computer.

European antitrust regulators just won’t leave Google alone.

A conversation with Björk about Vulnicura, her new—and confessional—album about her recent break-up with Matthew Barney.

A white gangster immerses himself in Asian culture to lead a Chinatown gang. He even learns to pour tea correctly.

An eyewitness tells us what it was like to be there.

A controversial effort divides students by race in order to combat racism.

A cop kills a fellow officer during a drug bust and claims it was an accident. Others suspect that it wasn’t.

Ostensibly straight black men who have sex with other men.

Born in Germany, raised in Montana, now living in New York, comedian Reggie Watts describes his style as “culture sampling.”

A year after dozens died protesting his election and hundreds more were imprisoned, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad grants a rare interview to an American journalist.

How YouTube went from ubiquitous to profitable; and where it goes next.

Once I made my home smart, what would it learn and whom would it tell?

How a Silicon Valley team helped rebuild his distinctive robotic sound.

All Artur Samarin wanted to be was a normal American teenager. So that’s what he became.

A working theory about what makes internet writing uniquely “internetty.”

Last week, as America’s top national security experts convened in Aspen, a strangely inquisitive Uber driver showed up, too.

How a U.S. law intended to reduce dependence on fossil fuels has unleashed an environmental disaster in Indonesia.

How well-meaning donations end up fueling an unproven, virtually unregulated $2 billion stem cell industry.