“Turns out your laptop—or camera or gaming system or gold necklace—may have a smidgen of Congo’s pain somewhere in it.”

After nine months of striking out, Chris McKinlay decided to change his online dating strategy. It worked.

A profile of comedian Leslie Jones, who made Saturday Night Live after 25 years as a road comic.

A profile of RZA, hip-hop artist and kung fu film director.

One year before his death, Mickey Mantle describes a life of drinking.

A profile of Dennis Rodman today.

A profile of Model View Culture founder Shanley Kane.

A pair of gamblers and a glitch too good to last.

A civil trial of Officer Marco Proano, who shot Niko Husband in 2011, finds him not guilty. By accident.

A profile of under-fire Goldman Sachs Ceo Lloyd Blankfein.

How Timothy Patrick Barrus, a white writer of gay erotica, reinvented himself a (wildly successful) Native American memoirist.

How investigators nabbed a key member of a group called “Lost Boy.”

How a childhood gorilla-hunting safari and a string of sexless marriages led Alice Sheldon to become reclusive sci-fi legend James Tiptree Jr.

A 2006 profile of Mark Zuckerberg as Facebook opened from a college-only site to a public social network.

A profile of Auburn quarterback Cameron Newton, junior college transfer and Heisman Trophy frontrunner.

From 2009 to 2014, police in Florida shot 827 people. Many of these incidents were avoidable and unnecessary.

Her creepy, surreal YouTube videos have millions of views, but no one knows Poppy’s full story.

“You’ve got your whole life in front of you. You’re pretty, you’ve got this house — well, you don’t have this house anymore. This house is my house.”

“I’ve got these boxes of ideas and I’m starting to go through them to see if there’s any gold. “

Yasiel Puig’s journey to the Dodgers.

Can an illegal drug heal PTSD?

The fallout from a 1987 Wisconsin manhunt.

Visiting a lost friend.

How Jeffrey Katzenberg became the Democrats’ kingmaker.

Life after The Real World.