Susie Mc­Kinnon cannot hold a grudge. She is unfamiliar with the feeling of regret and oblivious to aging. She has no core memories. And yet she knows who she is.

Dr. Drew has turned addiction television into a mini-empire, offering treatment and cameras to celebrities who have fallen far enough to take the bait.  His motivations, he insists, are pure:

Whether the doctor purposefully cultivates his celebrity stature for noble means or wittingly invites it because he himself likes being in the spotlight, he is operating on the assumption that his empathetic brand of TV will breed empathy instead of the more likely outcome, that it will just breed more TV.

How the bulk of the cocaine entering the U.S. ends up cut with a cattle dewormer.

How technological progress slowed from its 20th-century peak, why we’ve shifted from changing reality to simply simulating reality, and whether capitalism is the true culprit.

From a penthouse on Central Park, Guo Wengui has exposed a phenomenal web of corruption in China’s ruling elite — if, that is, he’s telling the truth.

“I’ll tell you what freedom is to me: no fear. I mean really, no fear!”

The writer is reluctantly whisked away to to a small house in upstate New York to attend an ayhuasca ceremony with six strangers.

“My name is Jackie and I am addicted to waitressing.” An essay on waiting tables.

A boy whose skin blisters at the smallest touch is fighting for his life.

Junior’s personal life is in shambles, Robert Mueller looms large, and it’s never been trickier to be the president’s son.

The debate over censorship and Section 230 is thorny, contentious, and, above all, outdated.

A primer on how the smartphone generation is redefining communication.

An interview with the novelist, who died on Saturday.

A cave in Russia, a long-lost tip of a pinkie bone, and the discovery of a new kind of human being.

A Rwandan refugee grows up in America.

A profile of the Hot 97 DJ a few months after “he told the truth about who he is, even if it’s not entirely clear—even to Mister Cee himself, even now, to this day—what exactly that truth is.”

Almond growing in California is a $7.6 billion industry that wouldn’t be possible without the 30 billion bees (and hundreds of human beekeepers) who keep the trees pollinated — and whose very existence is in peril.

It was one of the most arresting viral photos of the year: a horde of climbers clogged atop Mount Everest. But it only begins to capture the deadly realities of what transpired that day at 29,000 feet.

In the past the only people who wrote autobiographies or memoirs were very important, those who had a crucial role in the history of their own country—Napoleon, Goethe—or were witness to major events or people who had singular, adventurous lives. Otherwise, it is ridiculous to write your autobiography.

The story of the 1944 German national soccer championship game.

On the rise of witness intimidation in Baltimore.

The rise and fall of “America’s most exciting black scholar.”

Searching for the person responsible for an iconic piece of 90s design.

A broke agent hustles on the extreme fringe of pro basketball.

How to plan for the most serious of possible natural disasters.