'It’s raised the bar,' Craig finally conceded. 'It’s fucking raised the bar.'

American conspiracy theories are entering a dangerous new phase.

How a pandemic unfolds when you’re a Wall Street billionaire.

Our writer nearly drowns, 236 songs later.

Welcome to Toke-la-homa.

On trying, and failing, to qualify for the USA Olympic Marathon Trials.

A rider’s self-improvement project becomes a whole lot more.

An adventure on an Alaskan glacier with a new best friend.

Inside Robert Sarver’s 17-year tenure as owner.

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How what was once one of the most popular websites on Earth—with ambitions to redefine music, dating, and pop culture—became a graveyard of terrible design and failed corporate initiatives:

In retrospect, DeWolfe says, the imperative to monetize the site stunted its evolution: "When we did the Google deal, we basically doubled the ads on our site," making it more cluttered. The size, quality, and placement of ads became another source of tension with News Corp., according to DeWolfe and another executive. "Remember the rotten teeth ad?" DeWolfe says. "And the weight-loss ads that would show a stomach bulging over a pair of pants?"

Didion’s genius is that she understands what it is to be a girl on the cusp of womanhood, in that fragile, fleeting, emotional time that she explored in a way no one else ever has. Didion is, depending on the reader’s point of view, either an extraordinarily introspective or an extraordinarily narcissistic writer. As such, she is very much like her readers themselves.

After Moneyball became a best-seller, Michael Lewis learned that many of the ideas it presented to the general public had actually been introduced decades earlier by a pair of Israeli psychologists.

Adapted from The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds.

How a Chicago drug organization did business.

Investigating an insecure billionaire’s true worth.

A mother struggles to cope when a child is born with albinism.

A historic Little Rock building and its owner, before and after a catastrophic fire.

Unpacking a false confession 20 years later.

Life after a scandal.

Pimp, brawler, Old Master.

The Srebrenica massacre, almost 20 years later.

Following a lobster from sea to table.

On a $40 million raise and a fired co-founder.

Why the second Indiana Jones was so dark.