The writer and his oldest friends reunited to mourn the ones they lost—and honor the time they have left.

The Grateful Dead’s afterlife.

Reposted after it was pulled by The Atlantic:
How the little known $50/bottle champagne Antique Gold became the $300/bottle Armand de Brignac that Jay-Z “happened upon in a wine shop” and then featured in a video.

A journey into the 1950s.

Twenty-two years in, E-40 has extended his reign over the Bay Area rap landscape by returning to “making music the way he did back in the late ’80s: completely independently, selling his raps more or less directly to his fans.”

How the fashion industry collapsed.

A conversation with one of Russia’s “little green men”: a 24-year-old recruited to fight in Eastern Ukraine.

Working within Andalusia’s impoverished farming communities, a ragtag pair of longtime union leaders have been leading raids on local supermarkets.

An essay on Jimmy Savile, British television and child sexual abuse.

After being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a 30-year-old woman loses most of her memory.

A family turns to murder to save one of their own.

A profile of Ken Feinberg, lawyer who specializes in determining compensation after tragedies and disasters.

Dr. Joel Dreyer was a respected psychiatrist. Then he took a sudden turn to a life of drug dealing. Medicine might be able to explain why.

Kaskade is a 44-year-old devout Mormon father of three who has never touched a drink. He makes over $500,000 a night as an EDM performer.

After a year of tumult and scandal at Tinder, ousted founder Sean Rad is back in charge. Now can he — and his company — grow up?

A profile of Eugene Kaspersky, KGB-trained online security mogul.

Key and Peele try to make comedic sense of America’s confusions about race. Their secret? “Really, there’s no actual strategy.”

Thirty years ago, few people had ever heard of ADD. ‘Early onset depression’ might become a common diagnosis long before 2040.

A decorated college track coach, forced to resign because of an affair she had with a athlete 10 years before, fights back.

Hannah Upp keeps disappearing, forgetting her sense of self. Can she still be found?

A romance author accused her husband of poisoning her. Was it her wildest fiction yet?

Can face-to-face meetings between a victim and an abuser—a form of restorative justice—help a society overwhelmed with bad behavior?

How a bioethicist’s field of study—suicide, euthanasia, a dignified death—”turned unbearably personal.”

How a small group academics revealed an ancient order of opthamologists.

After a 19-year-old is convicted of murdering his girlfriend, her family fights to free him from prison.