What adolescence does to adolescents is nowhere near as brutal as what it does to their parents.

An excerpt from All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood.

Almost five years ago, the author’s 13-year-old niece was murdered in her bedroom in suburban New Delhi. Since then, both of her parents have spent time in jail. Evidence, bungled by police, points to another possible killer. The trial has not yet begun.

In 1980, Richard Pryor doused himself in rum, lit himself, and streaked though the streets or Northridge in a ball of flames. He would go on to live another 25 years.

“In some ways fame is gratifying, but you have to be very careful of what you wish for because you just might get it.”

He set a world record in the 100-yard dash as a teenager. He was mentored by Muhammad Ali and a man who orchestrated the largest bank embezzlement in U.S. history. He was homeless for part of his adult life before making a comeback at age 34. Throughout it all, Houston McTear was really, really fast.

How HGTV changed a city.

On the difficulty of diagnosing chronic lyme disease and the persistent struggle to do no harm.

A discussion of the “limited but important” power of Occupy Wall Street’s open blog, “We Are the 99%.”

The case for paying college athletes.

“Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”

The social network positioned its plan to bring the internet to millions of Indians as a gift. The country saw a catch.

The story of a rivalry gone awry.

After the massive success of SimCity, the company behind the game began building private simulations for corporations.

An East German weightlifter ingested more anabolic steroids than any other athlete in recorded history. It didn’t end well.

A glimpse of life on the suburban road, featuring Russian mobsters, Fox News rage addicts, a caged man in a sex dungeon, and Dick Cheney.

A profile of the actor following a car accident that left him briefly in a coma and ultimately with a settlement so large he never has to work again.

In 1990, there was no star bigger than the man born Robert Van Winkle. But just as quickly as he became the bestselling rapper the world had ever seen, he became a pariah.

From medical health privacy laws to a maze of siloed information systems, the true impact of COVID-19 on American Indian and Alaska Natives is impossible to calculate.

Memories of “Hollywood’s most grinding bore,” Ronald Reagan.

Why is an anti-virus software giant in the Belizean jungle surrounded by  gang members?

What the Chinese education system can teach America about relying on test scores as the main metric of success.

The misidentification of a Boston Marathon bomber and the future of breaking news.

Michael Quinn took on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints – and lost.

The frustrated – and well-hidden – story of Isabel Myers Briggs, inventor of the famous personality test.

The difficulty of catching a “cocaine trafficker with his hands on the country’s levers of power.”