On the group of friends who came to rule the bizarre, decreasingly lucrative world of Internet porn.

A pre-eminent expert on large carnivores runs afoul of the enemies of the wolf.

What happened to the group of bright college students who fell under the sway of a classmate’s father?

A consideration of Chris Ware.

A profile of Maggie Gallagher, founder of National Organization for Marriage.

Eco-tourism in the Himalayas.

The valley is everything you'd want and more. An icy milky river thunders over rocks and below steep wooded slopes are lush fields where people are working the land, oblivious to the Gore-Tex procession. Oblivious but not unaffected: the houses are smart, the prayer wheels freshly painted, just about everyone has a mobile phone, it seems, and is on it, and there are very few places you can't get a signal around here. This is not really the place to come if you're looking for peace and quiet.

The revolutionary and the silver screen.

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

A cultural history of Bitcoin and what happened when the nascent virtual currency began to be covered by the mainstream media.

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

The Brooklyn Nets were built to be an unbeatable superteam of eccentric basketball superstars. Will they dominate the N.B.A. playoffs?

The government says Matt DeHart is an online child predator. DeHart—and his parents—say he’s being framed over his knowledge of CIA secrets.

As the city is transformed by gentrification and inequality, comedies have begun depicting it as a place of magical connection.

Three years after a devastating wildfire, a California community faces another crisis: PTSD. Is what’s happening there a warning to the rest of us?

A profile of Benicio Del Toro.

Part one of a planned nine-part serialized biography of Harrison Gray Otis, the “inventor of modern Los Angeles.”

Future installments will include Otis’s interlude as “emperor of the Pribilofs,” his military atrocities in the Philippines, his bitter legal battles with the Theosophists, the Otis-Chandler empire in the Mexicali Valley, the Times bombing in 1910, the notorious discovery of fellatio in Long Beach, and Otis’s quixotic plan for world government.

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

Chains, knives, fists, and, of course, those crude and unreliable homemade affairs called zip guns were the staples in the more vicious gang wars in the 1940s and 1950s. Today there is scarcely a gang in the Bronx that cannot muster a factory-made piece for every member—at the very least, a .22-caliber pistol, but quite often heavier stuff: .32s, .38s, and .45s, shotguns, rifles, and—I have seen them myself—even machine guns, grenades, and gelignite, an explosive. One gang, the Royal Javelins, has acquired some walkie-talkie radios.

Adventures in bartending.

Growing old at the Playboy Mansion.

The golfer at his nadir.

“It is not so difficult to get Paul McCartney to talk about the past, and this can be a problem. Anyone who has read more than a few interviews with him knows that he has a series of anecdotes, mostly Beatles-related, primed and ready to roll out in situations like these. Pretty good stories, some of them, too. But my goal is to guide McCartney to some less manicured memories—in part because I hope they'll be fascinating in themselves, but also because I hope that if I can lure him off the most well-beaten tracks, that might prod him to genuinely think about, and reflect upon, his life.

And so that is how—and why—we spend most of the next hour talking about killing frogs, taking acid, and the pros and cons of drilling holes in one's skull.”

The former editor of the New York Observer, profiled.

David Petraeus, father of the surge and the uncontested “most competitive” man in the military.

Inside the growth of Goop — the most controversial brand in the wellness industry.