When a Qatari sheikh came to live in L.A., an entire economy sprouted to meet his wishes. “His highness doesn’t like to hear no,” one associate told a professor.

An intrepid expert with dozens of books to his name, Stéphane Bourgoin was a bestselling author, famous in France for having interviewed more than 70 notorious murderers. Then an anonymous collective began to investigate his past.

On Enrique of Malacca, “the closest thing there is to a hero in the story of Ferdinand Magellan’s horribly botched attempt to circumnavigate the world.”

Growing old at the Playboy Mansion.

The golfer at his nadir.

The Interstellar director and the art of the blockbuster cult film.

A history of the Hollywood publicity racket.

A “reckless” fracking company, poisoned springs, and a family forced to buy water at Walmart.

Two lawyers, a summer of unrest, and a bottle of Bud Light.

He is one of the most powerful people in media and has become a prominent voice in the #MeToo movement. Now six women accuse Moonves of harassment and intimidation, and dozens more describe abuse at his company.

How Chicago is key to a business moving tons of drugs for billions of dollars.

It’s the furthest artificial intelligence has come. And while the supercomputer may get attention for competing on Jeopardy!, Watson could also change everything from customer service to emergency rooms.

At a South Korean laboratory, a once-disgraced doctor is replicating hundreds of deceased pets for the rich and famous.

Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus got cancer—and then accidentally shared his diagnosis with the public over social media. Turns out getting sick renewed his faith, healed his old friendships, and reminded him what makes life worth living.

An ethnography.

“The conditions in America today do not much resemble those of 1968. In fact, the best analogue to the current moment is the first and most consequential such awakening—in 1868.”

Retro, apocalypticism, and our “culture of disaster.”

The story of an intensely creative young artist.

On recommitting to the Knicks after “a decade of dysfunction and delusion.”

A profile of the writer.

The impact, both on researchers and patients, of a radical treatment.

The definitive biographical portrait of a whistleblower.