Thoughts on the current era of online anonymity.

On Baylor’s freshman basketball star Perry Jones and how the new era of one-season careers has changed the landscape of college basketball.

The barbaric brutalization of Abner Louima and the tragic fate of a handful of flawed Brooklyn cops.

In 1960, beer heir Adolph Coors III was kidnapped and murdered. A look back at the crime and the man who committed it.

A study of the Mississippi River, its history, and efforts by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to hold it in place.

A profile of Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Body and The 4-Hour Workweek.

In Silicon Valley, up all night coding in the dorms with the aspiring Mark Zuckerbergs of tomorrow.

The history of – and recent controversy over – the diagnosis.

On the battle between Shaquille O’Neal and his former IT guy, who’s in control of much of O’Neal’s archived (and often damning) correspondence.

A conversation with the 88-year-old abstract painter.

PALTROW: Did you design camouflage while in the army?

KELLY: I did posters. I was in what they called the camouflage secret army. This was in 1943. The people at Fort Meade got the idea to make rubber dummies of tanks, which we inflated on the spot and waited for Germans to see through their night photography or spies. We were in Normandy, for example, pretending to be a big, strong armored division which, in fact, was still in England. That way, even though the tanks were only inflated, the Germans would think there were a lot of them there, a lot of guns, a whole big infantry. We just blew them up and put them in a field.

The disappointing tenure of Uruguay’s great lefty hope.

The history of a powerful and violent secret society in the islands of southern Chile.

On the Final Exit Network, a controversial right-to-die organization, and the death of their client John Celmer.

A profile of thriller writer Harlan Coben and what it takes to succeed as a novelist even when the literary establishment doesn’t acknowledge your existence.

The story of Bowe Bergdahl, a soldier who walked off his base in Afghanistan only to be captured by the Taliban.

How Indians with the surname Patel came to own 1/3 of the motels in America.

From Hong Kong to Bangkok to the Golden Triangle, the author searches for something everyone says no longer exists: an opium den.

The fatal allure of the Golden Gate Bridge and why it doesn’t have a barrier to thwart potential leapers.

The story of a deadly collision on the D.C. Metro, told from surviving passengers’ point of view.

Inside the C Street house in Washington and the little-known spiritual group behind it.

A trip to the Russian baths helps author start to see the good in his terrible eyesight.

The story of two Canadian artificial intelligence visionaries who became bitter rivals and then both committed suicide in the same month.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, oil magnate and once the richest man in Russia, delivers a speech from prison, where he has lived since 2003.

On the evolution of Nigeria’s booming film industry, which produces 50 full-length features a week.

A caller poses as a policeman and convinces McDonald’s managers to strip-search a female employee. It’s not the first time.