New research is intensifying the debate — with profound implications for the future of the planet.

Gang-bang buffet tables, deeply earnest 'Letters to the Editor,' ghost-writing Kierkegaard references into model bios in Barely Legal, and how a half-decade of reviewing porn eroded the thin line between the author's alter egos and self.

Using several email addresses and a lot of exclamation points, teenager Jonathan Lebed worked finance message boards in the morning before school and made almost a million bucks. Then he made the head of the S.E.C. look like a fool.

Jen Tullock is ready for her moment. Is the moment ready for her?

What accounts for the gender gap in literary criticism?

A bridge, a preventable leap, and the politics of barriers for “suicide hotspots.”

An argument for how the system protects police.

Glory, grief, and the race for the Triple Crown.

After a mass shooting, who cares for the coroners?

Tim Piazza fought for his life for 12 hours before his Beta Theta Pi brothers called 911. By then, it was too late.

“Jeffrey Levitt stole and misappropriated a grand total of fourteen million, six hundred ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred forty-seven dollars and fifty-eight cents. He stole all that. It was the largest single white-collar crime in Maryland history, almost bringing down the state’s entire savings and loan industry.” And it still wasn’t enough.

The teenager told police all about his gang, MS-13. In return, he was slated for deportation and marked for death.

For decades, poppers have been the go-to sex drug for gay men. But where do they come from?

From Vallejo to San Jose, a tour of local government despair:

The relationship between the people and their money in California is such that you can pluck almost any city at random and enter a crisis.

More Lewis: the complete financial disaster tourism series to date.

Dorothy Stratten was the focus of the dreams and ambitions of three men. One killed her.

September 11, 2001:

“I felt like I was intruding on a sacrament,” said one firefighter, Maureen McArdle-Schulman. “They were choosing to die and I was watching them and shouldn’t have been, so me and another guy turned away and looked at the wall, and we could still hear them hit.”

The Buckeye State’s fortunes and the fight for credit.

The search for the world’s most elusive skyjacker.

The man for whom the term “jet-setter” was coined left a bitterly fractured estate.

A profile of the Time Man of the Year for 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

For immigrants from Muslim-majority countries, applications for visas, asylum, green cards, and naturalization can take decades. Unless you’re willing to be an informant for the FBI.

Looking for holes in the world’s nuclear security.

The search for a woman’s true identity and the unmasking of a serial killer.

The quest to create a cheap, durable, clean stove for the masses.