Private planes, caviar lunches and Little League.

Ahmed Naji’s novel was not overtly political, but the “protagonist performs cunnilingus, rolls hash joints and gulps from bottles of vodka” which led a lawyer to press charges against him for causing a fluctuation in his blood pressure when the novel was excerpted in a Cairo newspaper, even though it had been approved by censors.

Undercover as a student at Phoenix University, the largest for-profit higher education company in the country and the second-largest enroller of students (behind the SUNY system), where only 12 percent of first-time students graduate and the ad budget accounts for 30 percent of overall spending.

A viral video in which Dr. Annie Bukacek questions the severity of COVID-19 has given anti-lockdown activists across the country a sense of validation.

The ultra-athlete and the doubters.

A mysterious wild cat in Sri Lanka may hold a clue.

The men and the women of the transactional-love economy. “A thing you should know is that there are very few people to root for in this story.”

The survivors who “have built the most effective, organized anti-rape movement since the late ’70s.”

Vera Pratt moved to the island at age 70 hoping to find many years of happiness. Then she met “Psychic Angela” and her future got a whole lot more complicated.

Police and scientists investigate an outbreak.

A first-person account of the author’s time spent volunteering with a group of Burmese activists in Thailand, who turn out to be not Korean but in fact Karen, members of Burma’s persecuted ethnic minority. In the course of her time there, they show her videos of their risky forays across the border, and she shows them MySpace.

How do you move on from being the best?

Renting in one of the most expensive American cities.

When the Feds sought the death penalty for four African-American drug dealers in Baltimore, the accused found a defense in the unlikeliest of places: the legal theories of white supremacists.

The life and times of James McClintock, the man behind the famed H.L. Hunley who also may or may not have faked his own death.

The chef/writer behind New York City’s Prune revises her original dreams for the restaurant in the wake of closing because of COVID.

How the Brazilian butt lift, one of the world’s most dangerous plastic surgery procedures, went mainstream.

Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian launches an ambitious campaign.

How young actors are navigating the new world of opportunities on our ever-shrinking screens.

A dispatch from Anthony Scaramucci’s SALT Conference.

How a July 4th meal exposes the coronavirus risk for thousands of US food workers.

Hollywood makes bad movies because “rotten pictures make money.”

More than 500 Germans, including a former rapper named Deso Dogg, have joined ISIS in Syria.

A New Orleans football legend reached the pinnacle of the sport, playing in three Super Bowls. Then he disappeared.

On video game collectors’ “holy grail” – a Nintendo World Championships cartridge:

Wired.com tracked down some of the Nintendo World Championships participants and serious videogame collectors whose lives have touched by these coveted artifacts of a bygone 8-bit era. Here are their stories.