After a lab linked to him was raided, James Jeffrey Bradstreet’s body was found with a bullet wound to the chest. His death was ruled a suicide, but other theories abound.

Ozel Clifford Brazil was a respected clergyman who helped thousands of African-American teens go to college. He broke the law to do it.

While serving in WWII, Jerome Motto received regular correspondence from a woman he barely knew. These letters led to groundbreaking research on how to reach people at risk.

Most tycoons give big to one or two universities as their children approach college age. David Shaw gave to seven.

Caffeine makes us more energetic, efficient and faster. But we have become so dependent that we need it just to get to our baseline.

The angry last days of Ty Cobb.

On Azealia Banks.

Pacquiao and his entourage.

The polar icecaps are melting. Is it OK to have a child? Australia is on fire. Is it OK to have a child? My house is flooded, my crops have failed, my community is fleeing. Is it OK to have a child? It is, in a sense, an impossible question.

An essay on audiobooks.

He was an 18 year old Marine bound for Iraq. She was a high school senior in West Virginia. They grew intimate over IM. His dad also started contacting her.  No one was who they claimed to be and it led to a murder.

Refugees arriving in the U.S. after receiving asylum face challenges that have led some to return to their war-torn homelands.

As mass demonstrations against police brutality continue across the country, thousands gather in New York to demonstrate against generations of police brutality and racial injustice in America.

At 37, Brian Wallach was diagnosed with the fatal disease. So he tapped a lifetime of connections to give help and hope to fellow sufferers—while grappling with his own mortality.

Arise Virtual Solutions, part of the secretive world of work-at-home customer service, helps large corporations shed costs at the expense of workers.

A closer look at the economics of Black pop culture reveals that most Black creators (outside music) come from middle-to-upper middle class backgrounds, while the Black poor are written about but rarely get the chance to speak for themselves.

At Moody Bible Institute, purity culture and complementarianism have worked together to forgive abusers and punish the abused.

On the road with Johnson Zeng, who buys up the metal “Americans won’t or can’t be bothered to recycle.”

After nine months of striking out, Chris McKinlay decided to change his online dating strategy. It worked.

On a former Louisiana preacher who converted to Atheism.

A profile of Sir Dr. NakaMats, who claims to have invented over 3,000 things, including the floppy disk and karaoke machine.

Israel Keyes confessed to multiple murders, but committed suicide before revealing all the details.

On the underground economy of full-service Southern California apartment complexes marketed to Chinese birth-tourists.