A tech reporter tells the story of his ruined digital life.

The truncated, violent lives of Richard Matt and David Sweat before their prison escape.

Spins from the DJs at Atlanta’s seminal Magic City strip club can turn nobodies into hip-hop stars.

How an apartheid-era psychiatrist went from torturing gay soldiers in South Africa to sexually abusing patients in Canada.

The challenge of finding answers about some abandoned cremains.

The first sports bra was invented in 1977. It was two jockstraps sewn together.

Why “the legal equivalent of outer space” continues to exist, fifteen years after 9/11.

After his daughter died in a terrorist attack, Stephen Flatow won an unprecedented judgment against her killers. Then he had to figure out how to actually collect.

Ten stories on guns, ranging from competitive shooting, to girl gangs in Chicago, to the sisters and mothers of mass shooting victims.

How one man wants to transport the world’s heaviest cargo in airships that are lighter than air.

Five of the sixteen women speak.

When 16 women live in a house, compete on a UFC reality show, and punch each other in the face.

The inside story of how Yahoo’s C.E.O. lost her way.

A refugee survives the Rwandan genocide and finds a future in Atlanta.

The everyday violence of some urban neighburhoods in America takes its own emotional toll.

Besieged by pirates, and youngsters unused to paying to watch sex, the porn industry just isn’t what it used to be.

The drugs did not entirely deliver on their promise of anxiety reduction.

Karaoke renditions of ‘My Way’ have led to murders in the Phillipines.

[Part 1 of 2] The story behind this spring’s spate of retributive murders in Southwest D.C.

How a French journalist recruited a posse of Brazilian parking lot attendants and pizza-delivery guys and created Hollywood’s most addictive entertainment product.

An email dialogue between David Gates and Jonathan Lethem on writing fiction in the age of online experiences.

Tony Judt on sex, the academy, and dating a graduate student while chairing NYU’s History Department.

A profile of Rahm Emanuel, written during his first congressional campaign in Illinois. Emanuel was running to fill the seat vacated by Rod Blagojevich.

Ten years ago, Esquire did a piece about Harvard Law grads who had eschewed their degrees. One of them was the late comedian.

On a book of photographs shot by Leni Riefenstahl in the 1950s and 1960s depicting an African tribe.