A sociologist’s controversial first book and the debate over who gets to speak for whom.

Reconstructing the investigation into Rafik Hariri’s assassination, for which five men stand trial in absentia.

On having sex with your high school girlfriend – and paying the price for years to come.

Judge William H. Alsup, who presided over Oracle v. Google, has been coding for more than three decades.

Searching for answers after unexplained brain injuries afflicted dozens of American diplomats and spies.

A guide to making sense of a problem that is now too big for any one person to fully comprehend.

When the FDA approves lab-grown human organs for patients, Dean Kamen wants to be ready to mass-produce them.

There are myriad arguments for and against eating roadkill. Can they all be true at the same time?

Las Vegas is both stranger and more normal than you might imagine, and for some reason, people don’t think anyone lives there.

Biden has a plan to make day care more affordable for parents—if the providers don’t go out of business first.

Getting arrested was the best thing to ever happen to Jeremy Meeks.

Franklin Leonard’s anonymous survey has launched careers, recognized four of the past eight Best Picture winners, and pushed movie studios to think beyond sequels and action flicks.

David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker, has written a new Obama biography expected to be a best-seller. His frugal streak has kept his staff intact. And yet, after a dozen years, he’s still the new guy at Condé Nast.

Ted Nelson's Xanadu project began in 1960 and was supposed to be the universal, democratic hypertext library that would help human life evolve into an entirely new form. It didn't go that way.

Update: The software was finally, quietly released in April.

The nation watched live as Robert O’Donnell rescued Baby Jessica from that well in Texas in October, 1987. Then they stopped watching, and Robert O’Donnell was lost without the attention.

An oral history of a family in Mexico City, in transition from poverty to the lower-middle class, as they scramble to organize the burial of a slum-dwelling aunt.

At age 17, Bonnie Richardson won the Texas state track team championship all by herself. Then she did it again.

She moved to Cape Cod to escape the glitzy Manhattan world she born into. The only witness to her murder was her 2-year-old daughter. Everyone she knew, it seemed, was a suspect.

Inside the world of dark tourism, where for just $2,500 you too could be responsible for a geopolitical calamity.

For migrants who speak Mayan languages, a grassroots group of interpreters is often their only hope for receiving asylum.

A forgotten birthday cake sets off a chain of unexpected events.

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“The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response. The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own value, of his own work. He's got to listen to his own voice primarily. He's got to watch out for fads, for what might be called the critical aesthetics.”