What one writer learned about power, real and imagined, from Trump’s “senior adviser” and son-in-law.

How a hacker shamed and humiliated high school girls in a small New Hampshire town, and how they helped take him down.

Tina Fey, Mike Schur, and 35 more TV writers on what their characters would do in a pandemic.

Renée Bach went to Uganda to save children—but many in her care died. Was she responsible?

“When I woke up hours later, I really believed I had been in those mountains hiking — that it was not a dream. And I really had lost my voice. I had lost my words. I was unable to say, ‘I am trapped in my brain’ or, ‘My memories are mixing with imagination.’”

Junky, out-of-date science fuels jury errors and tragic miscarriages of justice. How can we throw it out of court?

Accused money launderers left a path of bankrupt factories, shuttered buildings, and hundreds of steelworkers out of jobs.

A profile of Hector Xavier Monsegur, aka Sabu, a hacker star of Anonymous and resident of a New York City housing project.

A political history of Donald Rumsfeld.

What happens when we run out of houses.

An Englishman’s eighteen years of exile-by-choice.

“Economic theory as it exists increasingly resembles a shed full of broken tools.”

A prolific con artist, decades of grift, and a trail of shattered relationships.

A pub’s-eye view of Ireland’s recent run of leaders.

A profile of Carrie Brownstein, riot grrrl and creator of Portlandia.

A profile of Roger Ailes, CEO of Fox News.

A nation of suit-wearing salarymen educates its first generation of stay-at-home dads.

A profile of of Courtney Love.

Accused of being part of a terror cell at age 12, Gitmo’s youngest prisoner recounts his life

On the Squatty Potty and changing the way the you poop.

Confessions of a presidential campaign reporter.

On being kicked out of Doris Lessing’s house.

An oral history of Burning Man.

A profile of Jimmy Breslin.