Seventy years after three of the bloodiest days in U.S. history, the battle continues to bring the missing men home.

America’s biggest for-profit foster care agency has a history of abuse, neglect, and even deaths to account for.

The British and Irish have coined some fabulous terms to describe nature and landscrape. “Doofers” is the Scots’ term for horse-shit; “clinkerbell” means icicle in Hampshire.

A correspondence school for writers turns out to be a sham. This piece forced it into bankruptcy.

Fast food used to be a transitional, temporary work. In Creston, Iowa, it has become a career.

There are two roles to play in the new world of on-demand everything: royalty or servant.

Nowadays, the young and privileged view un- and under-paid assistantships as the road to a successful creative career. Are they deluding themselves?

From Stefani Joanne Germanotta to Lady Gaga: the self-invented, manufactured, accidental, totally on-purpose creation of the world’s biggest pop star.

The city of Boston, the Tea Party movement, and the rightful heir to the American Revolution.

Karaoke renditions of ‘My Way’ have led to murders in the Phillipines.

It took a desperate screenwriter to find Max Mermelstein, Miami’s former coke overlord, after twenty-five years in hiding.

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

A woman posing as a non-profit worker kidnaps a formerly homeless pregnant woman and tries to claim her baby. [PART 2]

Less than a week after Katrina, Michael Lewis goes home to New Orleans.

A mission in Baghdad to let a photojournalist get a shot of an insurgent corpse ends up getting a Marine killed.

The mother of a child born with a deformed brain responds, heartbreakingly, to an academic study claiming that people are happier without kids.

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

A profile of Rahm Emanuel, written during his first congressional campaign in Illinois. Emanuel was running to fill the seat vacated by Rod Blagojevich.

A writer struggles to defend his arbor vitae trees from a pack of hungry deer—“an episode of great vexation and buffoonery.”

Taibbi on the Tea Party. “After lengthy study of the phenomenon, I’ve concluded that the whole miserable narrative boils down to one stark fact: They’re full of shit.”

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

A report from Camp Hope, the tent city that’s sprung up next to the Chilean mine where 33 men have been trapped since early August.

James Frey is starting a publishing company, paying young writers (very poorly) to reverse engineer a Twilight-esque hit.

On the mysterious life story of blues icon Blind Willie Johnson and a half-century of attempts to fill in the blanks.

On boot camps designed to break kids of their web addiction.