An essay on its history and future during a time when “gayness, we are told, is over.”

Online startups can send you pills to cure anxiety. But is it safe to buy them?

Covid allowed Raquel Esquivel and 4,500 others to be released from overcrowded federal prisons. So why is she back behind bars?

James Allen is serving three life sentences for murder. No one ever said he killed anyone.

More than 50 years after Nelson Rockefeller's son went missing following a boat accident in New Guinea, the true story emerges. He made it to shore, but didn't make it much farther.

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When it comes to representing pharmaceutical companies, a doctor’s medical record is far less important than his or her ability to sell.

James Frey is starting a publishing company, paying young writers (very poorly) to reverse engineer a Twilight-esque hit.

Trump’s key adviser is a lobbyist known for reinventing tyrants.

Everyone knows who killed Rodolfo Illanes. So why is his death such a mystery?

He’s just as nice as you think he is.

Inside the lack of an investigation into Florida State Heisman Trophy winner Jameis Winston.

Did Thomas Pynchon write a series of letters to Northern California newspapers under the pseudonym “Wanda Tinasky”?

The story of a high school basketball star’s sexual abuse conviction and its aftermath, told from all sides.

Kim Goodsell had a pair of rare diseases. Doctors didn’t have the time to look for a link. So she taught herself genetics and found it herself.

A profile of former Duke basketball star Jay Williams a decade after the motorcycle crash that ended his career.

The private life of a disgraced former congressman.

Loretta Young, Clark Gable and the truth behind one of old Hollywood’s greatest scandals.

Mexicans on social media have their own hashtag for images of naked – and plainly impoverished – women.

On Christian Marclay’s film The Clock.

An investigation into the death of Victoria Arellano at a Los Angeles County immigration detention facility.

An investigation into the events surrounding Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s May 2011 arrest for sexual assault.

An essay on “how we ignore the long-term effects of violence on children, adults and our communities.”

The story of a young man, a lake with some fish, a compound bow and a very bad idea.