How the godfather of “fratire” went from chronicling his drunken sexual conquests to ghostwriting Tiffany Haddish’s memoir.

“The job is to be enough of a personality that they want to know what you think.”

What happens when you put a classroom on wheels and park it in the poorest neighborhoods of San Francisco?

An unarmed man, a cop charged with murder, and the challenge of policing mental illness.

The singer spends most of her time at home, working on a new album. That doesn’t mean she’s not paying attention.

Highlights from two hours of leaked audio from recent staff Q&A sessions with Facebook’s CEO.

The true tale of a bodybuilder turned social media influencer who built an illicit empire.

A profile of the contrarian French scientist Didier Raoult, who proposed an anti-malarial drug as a COVID cure.

With Deutsche Bank’s help, an oligarch’s buying spree trails ruin across the US heartland.

An early history of the 2020 presidential campaign.

In Kabul, one of the world’s most dangerous cities, one man works to help Afghan migrants return to a place they never knew.

A century of research has demonstrated how poverty and discrimination drive disease. Can COVID push science to finally address the issue?

“Before I came to Hollywood, I was confidently queer. Years of mixed messages in the industry changed that.”

A profile of Justin Timberlake:

This need to succeed, to become his generation’s multi-talented Sammy Davis Jr., is part of what makes him appealing to filmmakers. “I needed someone who could be a Frank Sinatra figure, someone who could walk into the room and command all the attention,” says David Fincher, of casting Timberlake as Sean Parker, the Facebook investor and rogue, in The Social Network. “I didn’t want someone who would just say, ‘I know how to play groovy.’ You can’t fake that stuff. That’s the problem with making movies about a rock star—actors have spent their lives auditioning and getting rejected, and rock stars haven’t.”

Why Whitney is Lucy, only less lovable:

This may sound like blasphemy to anyone who loves Lucille Ball, the woman who pioneered the classic joke rhythms that Whitney Cummings so klutzily mimics. Cummings has none of Ball’s shining charisma or her buzz of anarchy. Yet she does share Lucy’s rictus grin, her toddler-like foot-stamping tantrums, and especially her Hobbesian view of heterosexual relationships as a combat zone of pranks, bets, and manipulation from below. “This is war,” Whitney announces, before declaring yet another crazy scheme to undercut her boyfriend, and it might as well be the series’ catchphrase.

On the history and study of pica:

Indeed, we have long defined ourselves and others by what we do and do not eat, from kashrut dietary restrictions described in Leviticus to the naming of Comanche bands (Kotsoteka—buffalo eaters, Penateka—honey eaters, Tekapwai—no meat) to insults—French frogs, English limeys, German krauts. But poya seemed to beg a different question: what was one to make of people who ate food that wasn’t food at all?

Returning to Forth Worth after two and a half defection years in the Soviet Union, Lee Harvey Oswald became friends with a Russian emigre family with a son of his age. After Kennedy was shot, they would be called on to translate the Secret Service interrogation of his young Russian wife.

A bungled operation in Honduras and the enduring ineffectiveness of America’s war on drugs.

Summiting one of the world’s toughest peaks gave Julian Torres something an IED blast in Afghanistan had taken away.

Across the world, millions of displaced Syrians have been met with hesitation and hostility. Not in Canada.

An investigation into the abuse and neglect of adults with disabilities in Illinois.

Throughout their troubled lives, identical twins William and Chris Cormier shared a preternatural bond. Then the body of a Florida journalist ended up in their backyard.

On Julian Jaynes, a Princeton psychologist who told the story of how humans learned to think.

A profile of DJ Larry Levan, whose sets at New York’s Paradise Garage in the 80s had an almost religious appeal.