A world-renowned physicist’s miscalculation.

How pitching phenom Steve Carlton became a yoga-loving conspiracy theorist who calls a concrete bunker his home.

The pharmaceutical quest to give women a better sex life.

On the trail of the phantom women who changed American music and vanished without a trace.

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

Once their careers end, pro wrestlers often fall into emotional and physical disrepair. One of their own, Diamond Dallas Page, has a fix.

A profile of the world’s best League of Legends player, a 19-year-old Korean kid whose nickname is God.

On the kids who are spiritual leaders before the age of ten.

The author of The Junction Boys can’t tell you how many times he’s been arrested.

The struggles of Xavier University, a tiny, historically-black school in New Orleans, to train students for medical school.

A sociologist’s controversial first book and the debate over who gets to speak for whom.

How the feds flipped a corrupt American soccer official named Chuck Blazer and brought down the sport’s governing body.

How Dennis from Head of the Class grew up to be the Aaron Sorkin of tween television.

In a shantytown near Johannesburg, an angry mob committed a horrifying crime that was caught on video.

The rise and dissolution of the magazine that nearly took down a president.

On the dying city of Port Arthur, Texas, and one man’s fight to save it.

The original article on Billy Beane and the Oakland A’s, published a month before the release of Moneyball.

A profile of Mike Judge, creator of the now-resuscitated Beavis and Butthead.

The physical rigors of pregnancy tangle with the personal ambitions of a war photojournalist, without limiting her in the least.

Reconstructing the investigation into Rafik Hariri’s assassination, for which five men stand trial in absentia.

The Cleveland police are still adamant that they did nothing wrong in the killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice.

Prosecutors have spun creative theories to explain away scientific evidence when DNA tests haven’t fit their version of events.

How a family man dentist got involved in an underage prostitution ring.

From Tetris to Angry Birds, an examination of “stupid games.”

Ostensibly straight black men who have sex with other men.