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.

But now, being a celebrity yourself, you feel differently? I've subsequently changed my opinion. Brad Pitt doesn't have a superpower at his back. He just has some crazed fans and paparazzi. But now, having had all three, I must say, I'm not terribly impressed with the experience.

“Offhand, there are maybe three times in my life I can clearly recall laughing at something really terrible. One: when my mother told me my grandfather had a heart attack. Two: when a friend and I were driving to Cape Cod and a huge bird careened into the windshield, instantly bonking itself dead. Three: when my friends tried to keep me from going home from a party because they thought my boyfriend might kill me.”

“Women are not abstaining from or delaying marriage to prove a point about equality. They are doing it because they have internalized assumptions that just a half-century ago would have seemed radical.”

Excerpted from </em>All the Single Ladies</a>.

Sixty-nine years after publication, Fortune revisits “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men” – a story it commissioned but did not run.

Billionaire Marcelo Claure wants to help David Beckham bring professional soccer to South Florida. He just doesn't want to talk about it.

“One evening, my home phone rang. ‘You have a collect call from Bernard Madoff, an inmate at a federal prison,’ a recording announced. And there he was.”

Liz Waite and Kersheral Jessup couldn’t afford a higher education, let alone rent. But they worked and scrounged and slept on couches to put themselves through school. Will their degrees be worth it?