A post-acquisition profile of Tumblr’s David Karp.

Jamie Leigh Jones’s story of gang-rape in Iraq changed the law to help victims, even though she might not have been one herself.

A jailhouse interview with Vladimir Putin’s rival at the very end of his decade behind bars.

How fight coach Greg Jackson, once dubbed “the Philosopher King of MMA,” does his job.

Phil Locke made millions charging working people 400% interest. Then he had a change of heart.

Ardelia Ali was raped in 1995. Twenty years later, her attacker was convicted.

Pvt. Felix Hall died in the only known murder of its kind on a U.S. military base.

It was a genius piece of technology. But that didn’t mean it was a business.

We devote vast resources to intensive, one-off procedures, while starving the kind of steady, intimate care that often helps people more.

A day at the mall with the cast of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.

On the late singer Judee Sill, the virtual cemetery site Find a Grave, and memorials in the age of the Twitter RIP.

On Cecilia Chang, the St. John’s fundraiser who committed suicide after being convicted of fraud, and the university administrators who benefited from her crime.

Naffe, a young Republican, entered the belly of the political beast – and was nearly eaten.

A profile of Frank Lucas, whose life was the basis for the film American Gangster, decades after his days as a kingpin.

Amidst the football-obsessed culture of small-town Christian colleges in Kansas, a player is killed at a party.

“No one works better out of anguish at all; that’s an incredible literary conceit.”

On the death of NBA star Reggie Lewis.

On the trail of the phantom women who changed American music and vanished without a trace.

But not for want of programmers trying.

A profile of author William T. Vollmann.

On PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, and the experience of covering AIDS in Africa.

Once their careers end, pro wrestlers often fall into emotional and physical disrepair. One of their own, Diamond Dallas Page, has a fix.

The story of heiress Huguette Clark, who spent her life avoiding people and collecting dolls.

On the kids who are spiritual leaders before the age of ten.

“The whole thing has a sort of Taylor Swift-meets-jihad feel.”