His body wrecked by ALS, the author’s father insisted that his death, like his life, was his to control.

How Abraham Lincoln’s lifelong struggle with clinical depression was a key to his presidency.

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

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

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.

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

“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.

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.

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

An interview with Heart guitarist and film composer Nancy Wilson.

The theme-park chain where kids learn to pilot a plane, pay taxes, and pretend to be adults.

Many people hoped that this would be the second book she’d publish.

How the U.S. lost out on iPhone work.

On how 21st century culture shifts killed the nerd and what lies ahead.

After their mother was deported to Mexico, the Marin siblings faced an impossible choice: Stay or go.

The dark, tangled truths coming to light thanks to subterranean cartography.

Tim Piazza fought for his life for 12 hours before his Beta Theta Pi brothers called 911. By then, it was too late.

It was burned and sunk to hide the crime. Now its probable remains have been located.

How getting back into serious cycling helped the author heal as his marriage unraveled.

What a burgeoning movement says about science, solace, and how a theory becomes truth.

The bizarre corruption scandal at Bilfinger International.

The Navy installed touch-screen steering systems to save money. Ten sailors paid with their lives.