The former governor of Massachusetts wants to remove the stigma from electric shock treatments. They saved Kitty’s life.

On a U.S. soldier burned to the verge of death and the virtual-reality video game doctors used as treatment when he came home.

The history of “‘50s-era market-tested USDA White Pan Loaf No. 1.”

A 7,000-word anatomy of the chaotic 9 minutes after the U.S. Supreme Court issued its health care ruling.

If the fittest survive, why are so many people still depressed? An evolutionary theory on the benefits of painful rumination.

A interview with John Pistole, head of the TSA.

A profile of Lil Yachty.

A profile of the irrepressible Trump campaign foreign-policy adviser.

The story of one journalist’s giant salary and why his company could no longer pay it.

A new historical inquiry into the murder of Elwood Higginbotham offers a chance to confront the past.

Can Jerry Falwell Jr. build Liberty University’s football team into the evangelical version of Notre Dame?

An outsider artist’s odyssey to the center of his daughter’s life.

Oomba was a startup designed to make a lot of money from the games industry. Instead, everyone played each other.

The Brooklyn rapper, fresh out of prison on parole, talks about life on the inside and where he goes next.

He is 69. He is no longer a virtuoso politician. He has been marginalized within his wife’s campaign. Nobody knows what what his role will be if she wins, but everyone agrees that he’s desperate to find out.

GQ moved up the release of this Charlie Sheen profile: ”The fucking AA shit. The sobriety shit. It was always for other people. I just wanted to get a job back and get enough money to tell everybody to go fuck themselves and then roll like Errol Flynn and Frank Sinatra—the good parts of those guys.”

Can neuroscience take the pain out of painful memories?

John MacNeil was convicted by the state of Massachusetts of second-degree murder. He was given a life sentence. He escaped. He was caught. Through an incredible feat of jailhouse lawyering, he somehow got himself paroled and exiled to Canada. Then he came home.

A eulogy of sorts for the King.

An inside account of the Nairobi mall attack.

A profile of the comedian.

On recreational genetics, privacy and the new vulnerability of family secrets.

On the culture of abuse and coverup at Patrick Henry College.

Andrew Ross Sorkin’s intimate coverage of Wall Street.