A profile of Gordon Ramsay.

On the suicide of a promising professional golfer.

The transfiguration of Jared Loughner.

The life and death of Srinivas Kuchibhotla.

A profile of the Raging Bull boxer.

The education of Flynn McGarry.

A profile of the Fox News commentator.

On Rudolph Giuliani and the enduring power of shamelessness.

Tech oracle Jaron Lanier warned us all about the evils of social media.

How a night of drunken mischief led to the death of a rare endangered fish and a rare prosecution.

The grocer started communicating with Chinese counterparts in January and was running tabletop simulations a few weeks later. (But nothing prepared it for the rush on toilet paper.)

An annual re-enactment drags America’s history of racist violence into the light.

“Political argument has been having a terrible century. Instead of arguing, everyone from next-door neighbors to members of Congress has got used to doing the I.R.L. equivalent of posting to the comments section: serially fulminating.”

The death of Elijah McClain prompted a flood of more than 8,500 letters from outside the state of Colorado—all begging Governor Jared Polis for justice. The author opens every one.

How automated ‘execution algorithms’ are taking the world’s markets on a wild ride that few economists can even understand, much less control.

No one knows quite what to do with these coerced masks made from the faces of Native American POWS.

On this ward at Morton Plant Hospital, nurses are overwhelmed by the number of new, desperate cases.

“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.”

When the Swiss Alps heat up, the ice gives up bodies and secrets.

Half a century ago, a legion of idealists dropped out of society and went back to the land, creating a patchwork of utopian communes across Northern California. Here, the last of those rogue souls offer a glimpse of their otherworldly residences—and the tail end of a grand social experiment.

Eleven books into his planned thirteen book The Wheel of Time cycle, the most popular fantasy series since Lord of the Rings, Robert Jordan saw death on his own horizon and planned accordingly. A 31-year-old former Mormon missionary inherited his universe.

After the United States demanded the extradition of a drug lord, a bloodletting ensued.

A profile of Justin Timberlake:

This need to succeed, to become his generation’s multi-talented Sammy Davis Jr., is part of what makes him appealing to filmmakers. “I needed someone who could be a Frank Sinatra figure, someone who could walk into the room and command all the attention,” says David Fincher, of casting Timberlake as Sean Parker, the Facebook investor and rogue, in The Social Network. “I didn’t want someone who would just say, ‘I know how to play groovy.’ You can’t fake that stuff. That’s the problem with making movies about a rock star—actors have spent their lives auditioning and getting rejected, and rock stars haven’t.”

A profile of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

The dangerous work of harvesting your food.