A profile of Roseanne Barr and her multiple personalities.

Gaming the lottery seemed as good a retirement plan as any.

Decades ago, two parents sued a drug company over their newborn’s deformity—and changed courtroom science forever.

A pre-eminent expert on large carnivores runs afoul of the enemies of the wolf.

The absurd scale of McDonald’s’ economics suggests a company more like a commodity trader than a chain of restaurants.

At this volume, and with the impermanence of the sandwich, it only makes sense for McDonald’s to treat the sandwich as a sort of arbitrage strategy: at both ends of the product pipeline, you have a good being traded at such large volume that we might as well forget that one end of the pipeline is hogs and corn and the other end is a sandwich. McDonald’s likely doesn’t think in these terms, and neither should you.

The story of Thor Holm Hansen—”Norwegian country singer, a former Outlaws motorcycle chieftain, and an ‘ambassador at large’ to a rebel Haitian government”—who claims to be back in Florida to locate his missing daughter.

In just the past few years, one union has organized close to 10,000 Florida adjuncts, in what is one of the most remarkable and little-noticed large scale labor campaigns in the country.

A profile of the actor following a car accident that left him briefly in a coma and ultimately with a settlement so large he never has to work again.

Junior’s personal life is in shambles, Robert Mueller looms large, and it’s never been trickier to be the president’s son.

The true story of a ring of thieves who stole millions of dollars’ worth of luxury watches—and the special agent who brought them down.

How a childhood of anger led the founder of 8chan to create one of the darkest corners of the internet.

The early life of “the onetime Black Panther, protégé of George Jackson, and sole member of the San Quentin Six convicted of murder.”

A weekend with the United Order of Tents, a semi-covert organization of black women.

Remembering jazz musician Ornette Coleman.

The aftereffects of youthful escapes into movie houses.

The mainstreaming of livestreaming.

Memories of “Hollywood’s most grinding bore,” Ronald Reagan.

Here’s what’s become of them.

The haunted aftermath of disaster in Japan.

On the artist’s portrayal of violence and humanity.

On the structural underpinnings of the revolts currently shaking the Arab world.

What can hyperpolyglots teach the rest of us?

On literary manifestos, long-distance reading, and the egg of death.