Capt. Stephen Hill became famous when he came out as a gay soldier during a 2011 GOP presidential debate. Here’s how he got to that point, and what happened after.

Tonya Harding, Nancy Kerrigan and the “why me?” misheard around the world.

John Aldridge fell overboard in the middle of the night, 40 miles from shore, and the Coast Guard was looking in the wrong place. How did he survive?

How the Syrian president stays in power.

The reality TV star today.

“It’s Tuesday, it’s February, it’s my first day back at work after a week on vacation. I notice the candle in the foyer just as the whoosh of the door blows it out. They never did that for my birthday, I think as I walk past reception.”

On Benjamin Murmelstein, the head of the council of elders at the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

Rethinking Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil.

Arriving in China at 23, Sidney Rittenberg spent 35 years as a “friend, confidante, translator, and journalist” for the Communist Party’s top leaders. In this interview, he recalls both his friendship with Chairman Mao and the 16 years he spent in solitary confinement.

“Does a talent for comedy necessitate a tragic life?”

“Americans find it hard to believe that foreigners are unalterably foreign, for they have seen generations of immigrants who became Americans.”

How corporations are using the First Amendment to destroy government regulation.

The riotous private sector life of former New York senator, Al D’Amato.

“Let them say what they want. It’s not about me.”

The author dives to the wreck of the Mohawk, where his uncle died in 1935.

In 1916, a pair of 29-year-old women, bored with their lives in Upstate New York, took teaching jobs in a remote area of the Rocky Mountains. This is the story of what they found.

The Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman star on being married to Woody Allen, Jewish words, and Girls.

“I’ve tried therapy, drugs, and booze. Here’s what helps.”

Experiencing the first moon walk with a wide range of New Yorkers.

A profile of the publisher of Screw, who died this week.

An exploited celebrity’s long journey home.

On the echoes between the world leading up to World War I and our present international trajectory. Then, as globalization, nationalism, and radicalism converged, and tensions within the Balkans served as a spark. Today, conflicts in the Middle East, whose borders were mostly drawn in the wake of World War I, could play a similar role.

An essay on dick culture.