First they found his server, then they found his name. But if they couldn’t catch him with his laptop open, the whole thing would fall apart.

An essay on its history and future during a time when “gayness, we are told, is over.”

On being among giant reptiles with a parent you don’t understand.

The grim, racist methods of a New York City landlord.

The death of one Nevada man in a chaotic, unregulated, and expensive industry.

One woman’s 407 mile journey to have an abortion.

The sheriff of Putnam County, Georgia, finally meets a case he can’t solve.

On equating beauty with self-worth.

Gregg Bemis is an 87-year-old retired venture capitalist who owns the salvage rights to the Lusitania. He’s determined to prove an alternate theory as to why the ship was attacked in 1915. Unfortunately, the Irish government isn’t so into his plan.

A meditation on life in the black “upper class.”

A steep discount on pharmaceutical drugs leads to a mass-murder case.

Arthur Mondella took over his family’s maraschino cherry business reluctantly. But once he had it, he started a second enterprise. Behind an unmarked roll-down gate, behind some of his prized luxury cars, behind a pair of closet doors, behind a set of button-controlled shelves, behind a fake wall and down a ladder in a hole in the floor, Mondella built a 2,500-square-foot marijuana factory. When the police finally found it, he shot himself.

The last all-male clubs in Britain are contemplating admitting women. But a significant proportion of their members still want to preserve the spaces as male-only.

A man felt wronged by his ex-girlfriend, a video game designer. So he published a 9,425-word online screed with “each component designed to be as damaging to [her] as possible.” It sparked the online fire known as “Gamergate.”

Notes from a never-finished biography of the neurologist, humanist and writer.

The melancholy comedy of the silent screen star.

We are disgusted by butchery, even as we eat more meat than ever.

The author boards the Costa Atlantica for several days of line dancing, burlesque and buffets as part of the cruise industry’s new foray into China.

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

In Arkansas, a small cottage industry of lawyers arranges adoptions of the babies of Marshall Islands immigrants. But are parents only giving up their children based on a cultural misunderstanding?

Most people think they’d be thrilled to have their memoir snapped up for a movie. The author had a different, more troubled experience.

When an accountant decided to call foul on Halliburton’s financial record-keeping, he thought he was doing the right thing. He spent 10 years fighting for the courts to agree.

On a 16-year-old with a debilitating disorder: trichtillomania.

On Kendall Jenner, public versus private lives, and the American Dream.

The author discovers devastating secrets while going through her late father’s belongings.