A survivor of conversion therapy gets the wedding of her dreams.

Inside the fast-food labor protests.

On the rise in gay teens who are cast out by their families.

On fathers, mothers, and doctors.

Profiles of the true believers.

Tony Ma will bet you as much as $600,000 to train your student for college acceptance. If the student gets into their top choice school, Ma takes the cash. Rejected? He gets nothing.

How an education reform effort became the new Obamacare.

One rabbi’s tactics against husbands who refuse to divorce their wives.

“I did a few days on Franco’s As I Lay Dying, and the vibe on the set was very heavy and serious. The only thing I can equate it to is tripping with a bunch of your friends.”

“They thought they were going to change the world,” he says of the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project volunteers. “They didn’t expect that white folks would be so vicious.”

An essay on motivation.

A trip to The Villages, a booming retiremement community outside Orlando, where the golf is free, casual sex is everywhere, and there is no cemetery.

On learning a new language, a new culture, and why “it must never be concluded that an urge toward the cosmopolitan, toward true education, will make people stop hitting you.”

The author examines his terrible football career.

On being black in an all-white Swiss village.

On the narrative of sexual coercion.

On the comedian’s relationship with his son and how it changed the course of The Cosby Show.

A profile of Michelle Lyons, who viewed 278 executions as both a local reporter and a spokesperson for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

On the highly enjoyable, nearly fatal first experiments with laughing gas in late 18th-century London.

On a childhood fascination with the mid-18th century battle.

Navigating the alligator-infested rivers of North Florida.

“If you take the chance, sometimes you’ll find something so magnificent that it was worth dying for, and sometimes you’ll find nothing and have a horrible night. To go deeper with it, that’s the most interesting challenge.”

On PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, and the experience of covering AIDS in Africa.

To understand why a 64-year-old man would try and break the land speed record by traveling hundreds of miles per hour, you need to know a little something about his family.

On the history of masturbation.