“Anytime I was called a New Journalist I winced a little with embarrassment.”

Dr. Fredric Brandt redefined cosmetic dermatology forever by bringing a smooth, plump, and ageless face to the masses.

When Jake Millison went missing, his family said he’d skipped town. But his friends refused to let him simply disappear.

The debate over censorship and Section 230 is thorny, contentious, and, above all, outdated.

Inside Randall Emmett’s direct-to-video empire, where many Hollywood stars have found lucrative early retirement.

A two-part story on Bill Gates and his revolutionary machine.

On the Toronto Islands, an ugly real estate battle forces neighbours to ask: How do we define family?

When a child vanished in Nova Scotia, online sleuths got involved in the search. Then they lost their way.

The comic answers some uncomfortable questions.

A primer on how the smartphone generation is redefining communication.

Inside the compulsive world of airline rewards hobbyists, who spend the bulk of their lives flying around the world for free.

A sumo wrestling tournament. A failed coup ending in seppuku. A search for a forgotten man. How one writer’s trip to Japan became a journey through oblivion.

Diary entries concerning innocent Americans abroad.

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In Liberland, a small borderland between Serbia and Croatia, ‘‘government will be banned except for three things: security, legal stuff and diplomacy.’’

On the 1,600-year-old text that suggests that Jesus, long believed to be celibate, was a married man.

How a Tulsa preacher used direct mail to create the American religious right.

An interview on craft.

On “Operation Bambi,” the secret plan to oust “Today” show co-host Ann Curry.

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.

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.

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.