Chérif and Saïd Kouachi’s path to the Paris attack at Charlie Hebdo.

Cheryl Stearns wanted to become the first woman to skydive 20,000 times. She came up 14 jumps short.

A patient arrives in a therapist’s office complaining of writer’s block. He’s not in search of the talking cure, though.

“When constant revisionism and re-invention is under way, what does it profit a biographer to drag the weary ‘facts’ before us?”

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

It’s a mess inside the network – and Brian Williams may still come out on top.

An athlete without arms or legs tries to get a spot on a the national wheelchair rugby team.

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

On the golden anniversary of her first trip to study chimps, an ode to Jane Goodall.

A profile of Sorkin, who wrote The Social Network. “I don’t feel like a nerd,” he says, “but I think I understand them.”

How the mind behind Lemmings and Grand Theft Auto plans to push gaming further.

On the set of Afghanistan’s first soap opera and at home with its cast.

Thoughts on an emerging brand of feminism and the ridiculousness of claiming that Tina Fey is unattractive.

An interview with mind behind both Five Easy Pieces and The Monkees.

A trip to Râmnicu Vâlcea, a town of 120,000 where the primary (and lucrative) industry is Internet scams.

The bizarre tale–and unlikely turnaround–of an NHL player who tried to have his youth coach murdered.

The life and death of a reporter.

An update to Into the Wild.

An open letter on Grand Theft Auto 5 and aging out of the Rockstar Games franchise.

On simplicity, self-reliance and refusing to cooperate with “the apparatus of secrecy” that surrounds online surveillance.

A Republican primary postmortem with the brains behind Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio’s respective campaigns.

The greatest stand-up of his generation is also his own worst enemy.

Balancing the creation of a house with living in it as a home.

“We have a lot in common. We go to the same shrink.”

He was supposed to be the Dallas Cowboys’ star running back. Instead, Joseph Randle is in prison.