Ellen Pao recounts her own lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

What led to the death of a 5-year-old boy, “the Everychild in the state system.”

The untold story of how anger became the dominant emotion in our politics and personal lives—and what we can do about it.

“There is perhaps no other political-military elite in the world whose aspirations for great-power regional status, whose desire to overextend and outmatch itself with meager resources, so outstrips reality as that of Pakistan.”

On the popular iPhone app.

Just the day before, President Barack Obama had signed on and begun sending out photos. This seemed like a real sign that Instagram had arrived. Obama already has accounts on Flickr and Facebook. He (or his people) must have seen something unique and wonderful in Instagram's audience, some way to reach people via that channel that it couldn't through others. When the President joins your network, it's news. And while it's great news, it can be the kind of thing a company isn't prepared for. But as it turns out, Obama is a fractional compared to Justin Bieber.

“For the first few days after the surgery, it was difficult to separate out my newly implanted sense from the bits of pain and sensation created by the trauma of having the magnet jammed in my finger.”

Grizzly Bear and the surprisingly crappy economics of indie rock stardom.

On the Mexican drug cartel accused of laundering money with race horses.

A tale of missing money, heated lunchroom arguments, and flaxseed pizza crusts.

A profile of the Atlanta star and creator, who also released a hit album in 2016 and is set to star in the next Star Wars.

What increased tourism means for the people of the Northwest Passage.

Adventures in bartending.

Following two leading figures of the #BlackLivesMatter movement through five months of protests.

In the wake of Rumours, the band endures a series of break-ups.

Why our entire understanding of copyright is due for an overhaul.

India’s greatest terror threat may not be militants slipping across the Pakistani border, but rather the homegrown Maoist rebels who control the villages of the interior.

The film is a rare portrayal of black people in our fullness—angry and frightened and hurt, euphoric and loving and free.

How USAID workers are trained for work and danger in Afghanistan.

Why everything is getting louder.

Then there’s Mark Kostabi, the former New York gossip column fixture and self-professed “con artist” who everybody remembers but nobody talks about. Christie’s and Sotheby’s have no comment. Neither does the MoMA, the Guggenheim, or the Met, despite the curious fact that they all have Kostabis in their permanent collections. As for quotes from some highfalutin critics expounding on the semiotics of cone hats, cash registers, and the Sony Walkman in Kostabi’s work? Not a chance.

More than 100,000 city public school students lack permanent housing, caught in bureaucratic limbo that often seems like a trap. This is what their lives are like.

A profile of Gil-Scott Heron.

Trying to make sense of a fragmented, disparate musical tradition.

In an era when America’s great sportswriters were as big as the athletes they covered, W.C. Heinz may have been the best of the bunch.