An interview with William Gibson on the “dark, dark world of marketing, advertising, and trend forecasting.”

A history of entrepreneurship in New York City, starting with shipping magnate Jeremiah Thompson’s big gamble in the 1820s: scheduled departures.

A (graphically) detailed account of a bear’s attack on a father and daughter hiking in Glacier National Park.

In 1926, at the age of 12, Barbara Follett published a critically acclaimed novel. Fourteen years later, she disappeared.

“You’re either with Korn and Limp Bizkit, or you’re against them.” The birth of nu-metal.

A brutal custody battle raises questions about who has a right to rear a child and what the legal meaning of a family should be.

A profile of Seth Moulton, the junior congressman from Massachusetts.

The legendary stuntman launches a new phase of his expansive career.

No one knows quite what to do with these coerced masks made from the faces of Native American POWS.

The true story of M Company: from Fort Dix to Vietnam in 50 days.

Ideas on labor and capital have remained fixed while the means of production grow ever more alienating.

Donald Trump assaulted me in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room 23 years ago. But he’s not alone on the list of awful men in my life.

Investigating one of the deadliest maritime disasters in U.S. history.

Stories of African Americans playing in a city that has struggled with racism

Inside the surreal and lucrative two-sided marketplace of mediocre famous people.

A trip to one of America’s quietest places and the guy who has dedicated his life to keeping it that way.

Kurtis Minder finds the cat-and-mouse energy of outsmarting criminal syndicates deeply satisfying.

The Jackass takes stock of a surprisingly long, hilariously painful, and unusually influential career.

A profile of Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, the Malibu-dwelling, “fantastically corrupt” dictator-in-waiting of Equatorial Guinea. Teodorin, as his friends call him, is considered by U.S. intelligence to be “an unstable, reckless idiot.”

As it scrambled to compete, the tech company cut tens of thousands of U.S. workers, hitting its most senior employees hardest and flouting rules against age bias.

It took only a handful of people to wrongly convict Ed Ates of murder. It took an army to free him from prison. Now comes the hard part.

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.

In 2009, 300 people perished in an earthquake in L’Aquila, Italy. Next week, six Italian scientists and one government official will stand trial for manslaughter.