I thought I could change The Bachelor franchise from within. Until I realized I was their token.

Their boat gone, they spent five days in the Atlantic Ocean without food or water, surrounded by sharks.

Inside the political battle over reproductive rights in Texas a decade ago.

We don’t often talk about how a paper’s collapse makes people feel: less connected, more alone.

TM The only other time I saw you was in Bleecker Bob’s in the ‘70s. You walked in eating pizza and wearing aviator glasses and Bleecker Bob showed you an Ian Dury picture sleeve and you said, “I don’t listen to music by people I don’t wanna fuck.” PS (laughter) Yeah, that was me.

She went to jail 35 years ago after driving the getaway car in an infamous robbery and defiantly refusing to admit the act was wrong. Her sentence was 75 years. But something changed in prison — Judy Clark went from radical to model inmate. This week her sentence was commuted.

“You revise your reader up, in your imagination, with every pass. You keep saying to yourself: ‘No, she’s smarter than that. Don’t dishonour her with that lazy prose or that easy notion.’ And in revising your reader up, you revise yourself up too.”

Growing up in Toledo, Ohio, Gina Grimm always wondered who her biological parents were. “You know, you go to the supermarket and think, ‘That lady kinda has my nose.’ Or, you know, ‘That man kinda has a resemblance to my face.’”

Thomas Sweatt torched D.C. for decades and was finally jailed for killing one person. During a year-long correspondence from prison with a reporter, he confessed there were more.

An interview with painter Chris Martin.

In between projects, the director searches for “that next soul-nourishing gig.”

On settling in Los Angeles after life as a war correspondent in the Middle East.

Medicine, the company says, can also be a tasty snack.

A week with the Libertarian presidential candidate, who hasn’t ruled out a win in November.

“As my acting career developed, I was no longer cast as a radical Muslim – except at the airport.”

The gamblers and teenage cons who haunted New York City’s 60s-era all night bowling alleys.

An interview with the Japanese artist, who has resided in a mental institution since committing herself in 1975.

The pharmaceutical quest to give women a better sex life.

The author, an abortion counselor, was 40 and pregnant when a conflicted Catholic woman came to her clinic.

Riding along on the Lunch Express.

Inmates work for hours each day and yet have no labor rights.

If jobs as we’ve known them for a century are going away, what will replace them?

For a time, NGOs thought they’d eradicated the disease. But now it’s back.

Winona Ryder has always been trapped in her own anticipatory nostalgia, and the public has always wanted to keep her there.

An interview with Heart guitarist and film composer Nancy Wilson.