An exploited celebrity’s long journey home.

How Hollywood falls for actresses who “act like a dude but look like a supermodel” – and then changes its mind.

After the 1919 Black Sox scandal, Ring Lardner, America’s first great sportswriter, walked away from the game.

On the investors betting big on the Iraqi economy, which they believe has nowhere to go but up.

On 20-somethings in America, or:

My screwed, coddled, self-absorbed, mocked, surprisingly resilient generation.

Inside carpenter brothers Ryan and Dylan, and their stripper sister Lee-Grace Dougherty’s eight-day, fifteen-state, AK-47-wielding crime spree.

On L.A.’s Homeboy Industries, which offers former felons—including at least one disgraced CEO—the chance to work.

Margaret Profet, evolutionary biologist and MacArthur grant recipient, disappeared in 2005. She has neither been seen nor heard from since.

What would drive a man to stand outside the Vatican embassy nearly every day for 14 years?

An interview with the novelist.

INTERVIEWER: You once said the novel is dead. VIDAL: That was a joke.

What is the sickness that leads inhabitants to sleep for days?

Personalized medicine may one day deliver routine medical miracles. But it wasn’t ready in time for Stephanie Lee.

Afghans have long visited falbin to have their futures foretold. Fundamentalist Muslim clerics hope to stop that.

Michael Phelps returns to his Olympic training after a 45-day stint at The Meadows.

“This is a story about an entertainer named R. Kelly. It is a story about the remarkable, but also very strange, pop talent he has. It is a story about the difficult places he came from and the ways they may, or may not, have shaped who he has become. It is also the story of a man who has been publicly accused of multiple sexual offenses with underage women, and who stood trial for making child pornography. He was eventually acquitted of that charge, and his career has continued uninterrupted, but for the most part he has evaded even the most basic questions that might help people understand what is true about him. For this story, R. Kelly agreed to speak about his whole life without restrictions.”

The magician who spent his life debunking spiritualists and exposing con men.

A refugee survives the Rwandan genocide and finds a future in Atlanta.

A trip to Nashville to interview the writer Ann Patchett.

How a celebrated American artist was forced to trade his multimillion-dollar collection for a job selling donuts.

If you walk into New York’s best restaurants without a reservation, what does it take to get a table?

It makes as much money as Whole Foods while stocking 90 percent fewer products. The Trader Joe’s business model explained.

Four years after a disastrous MTV performance had led him to avoid the public, Rose was back on stage.

How a 27-year-old went from PR underling to gatekeeper.

Few Americans are as affected by climate change as Alaska’s Inupiat, or as dependent on the fossil-fuel economy.