The wild competition to be “worshipped” by Alaska’s most eligible bachelors.

Investigating the murder of a friend and colleague.

On the dueling propagandists of Kiev and Moscow.

A surprising trip into the propaganda machine.

On (not) getting by in the gig economy.

Dick Cheney and the political history of warrantless surveillance.

On David Foster Wallace’s unfinished novel, The Pale King, and his legacy.

She is an unknown struggling writer. Her boyfriend is Jonathan Franzen.

A reporter on his first time covering a disaster.

Was Steinbrenner’s Partner the “Madoff of Memorabilia”? Inside a collector’s hoax.

The truth and consequences of reporting from a war zone.

On the battles, both between humans and animals, in Africa’s overpopulated Albertine Rift.

On the privilege of being then-Vice President George H.W. Bush.

On the TechCrunch founder’s venture capital fund, and a new breed of startup investor.

As Twitter-loving VC investors have become brand names themselves (Fred Wilson, Marc Andreessen, Chris Sacca), what one might call the auteur theory of venture capitalism has emerged—the idea that startup companies bear the unique creative signature of those who invested in them. To study a venture capitalist’s portfolio is to study his oeuvre.

On the autopsy of a 5,000-year-old murder victim.

The story of eight young people who died in a New Orleans squat fire.

The legacy of Barry Levinson’s 1982 movie Diner.

Gentrification and its discontents in Paris, throughout the centuries.

On singer-songwriters Harry Nilsson, Randy Newman and Van Dyke Parks.

I get the sense that the labels' attitude toward these guys wasn't altogether different from a parent's attitude toward gifted children: Get them through the system, but make sure to give them a clean little corner to doodle in and pat them on the head when they show you what they've done, whether you understand it or not.

The infuriating tale of Muncie, Indiana: When public institutions fail.

The world of high-end wine gets conned.

The untold story of steroids in baseball.

Shiva Ayyadurai told the world he invented email. Not everyone agreed.

“My mother became my daughter when I was nine years old.”