A Houston man allegedly tries to hire several hit men to kill his wife. Each fails miserably. It becomes the talk of the town.

He was fired from the company he helped create, YouSendIt. Then the cyberattacks started.

What really happened between the plaintiffs in Lawrence vs. Texas, the case that ended anti-sodomy laws?

The story of Brownie Wise, the woman who made Tupperware a household name.

The life of Reverend Charles Moore, who died by self-immolation in the parking lot of a Texas strip mall.

The author’s long-running relationship with the grotesque.

He was one of Israel’s greatest spies. Then he brought his own country to the brink of war.

“But the journalism itself is not free. It can’t be free. And if it is free, it’s not going to be very good.”

An interview with Clay Shirky on “why no medium has ever survived the indifference of 25-year-olds.”

Her suicide made headlines around the world after classmates were indicted on felony charges related to bullying. The real story isn’t that simple.

Anxiety, weight, general well-being—how the first nine months determine the rest of your life.

On the language of hobos and the dictionaries it spawned.

A manifesto from one of the first professional bloggers on a new ‘golden age of journalism.’

On a group of women whose lives were forever altered by the Leif Garrett episode of Behind the Music.

Sex in the NBA in the wake of Magic Johnson’s HIV announcement.

Most of the country is trying to keep guns out of schools. A town in rural Idaho is taking the opposite approach.

How Montana became home to the highest concentration of hate groups in the nation.

An interview with the founding editor of the New York Review of Books, who died Monday.

On the life at sea of Henk De Velde, who has circumnavigated the globe six times.

Inside the Tacoma Northwest Detention Center, “an opaque system that literally disappears people” accused of immigrating illegally.

Retracing the steps of the most devastating wildfire in California history.

Examining the state’s campaign to grant clemency and restore civil rights.

“The reason women-only billiards tournaments exist is not because the players can’t beat men. It’s because they can.”

The opioid’s potency has transformed the global trafficking—and policing—of narcotics.

A long-running inferiority complex, vast statutory power, a chilling new directive from the top—inside America’s unfolding immigration tragedy.