He survived the Capitol riots. Then his trial began.

Peter Thiel gamed Silicon Valley, the IRS, and Donald Trump.

Inside the quest to prolong athletic mortality.

A rookie firefighter confronts his first test.

“If you take the chance, sometimes you’ll find something so magnificent that it was worth dying for, and sometimes you’ll find nothing and have a horrible night. To go deeper with it, that’s the most interesting challenge.”

The outgoing treasury secretary on his financial crisis regrets, putting policy before politics, and whether Washington will ever be able to strike a grand bargain.

On Clifton “Pop” Herring, the then-26-year-old high school basketball coach who famously left Jordan off the varsity squad as a sophomore.

How the Taliban reestablished itself as both a “quasi government” and a military force, and what that success means for the Pentagon’s plan to pass responsibility to Afghan forces by 2014.

Life after the sugar sphinx.

Over the past 15 years, three people have attempted to restore the humor brand to its former glory. What happened instead was direct-to-video movies, lawsuits, crippling debt, and two prison sentences.

How Trumpism operates on the knowledge that some people can get away with anything, and how it offers a false promise to extend that privilege to white kids everywhere

The latest research suggests it’s not far-fetched at all—especially when you consider all the societal and cultural factors that make today’s games so attractive.

What it was like to be a rank-and-file Sony employee after the hack.

Inside New England’s thriving arms industry.

The “subtly radical” open-source plant movement.

How New York real estate became the new Swiss bank account.

Raising a cow on an industrial feedlot.

An author confronts her troll.

The uncomfortable, and increasingly vital, relationship between Barack Obama and billionaire donors.

The many reasons Lost shouldn’t have happened.

An investigation into how Hollywood abuses animals.

“I’ve tried therapy, drugs, and booze. Here’s what helps.”

After being extinct for 70 million years, the coelacanth came back to life.

The battle for Rio de Janeiro’s iconic Cristo Redentor statue.