When it comes to sweatshops and child labor, your $7 H&M gym shorts aren’t really the problem (or the solution).

Activist investor Bill Ackman set out to destroy the multilevel marketing company. But did he wind up helping it succeed instead?

Pubs are closing all over London. One Camden establishment, the Golden Lion, decided to fight it.

On the stories we tell ourselves about happiness and the indecent questions we ask women who decided not to become moms.

A legend hangs on.

How an up-and-coming company went bust.

“This is a story about how the future gets weird.”

A respected anti-gang crusader shoots and paralyzes another man.

A private investigator asks a magazine to write a puff piece on his business. The journalist finds a real story.

Nearly every American soldier injured in Iraq or Afghanistan is treated—for a few days at least—at a single hospital in Landstuhl, Germany.

When the greatest players in the world go head-to-head, things can get downright angsty.

Two Houston performance artists faux-marry an oak. Controversy ensues about the live installation’s relationship to the gay marriage debate.

He was fired from the company he helped create, YouSendIt. Then the cyberattacks started.

“My name is Jackie and I am addicted to waitressing.” An essay on waiting tables.

Don’t call them “foodies.”

On a Victorian-era murder case, and the novel it inspired.

An interview with the experimental filmmaker and Hollywood chronicler Kenneth Anger, 85.

On the psychological damage punitive isolation inflicts upon Guantánamo and American prisoners alike.

Academics are convinced it’s an intelligent satire.

A BASE jumper emerges from a coma after a bad fall and sets about rebuilding his body and his life.

How an L.A. high school dropout became an enforcer for Mexican cartels and ended up on the F.B.I. Most Wanted List.

The battle to contain the Asian tiger mosquito–one suburban, above-ground pool at a time.

An interview with R. Crumb on how he adapted Genesis into comic form.