Supply and demand paid-sex economics, ‘hobbyist’ internet message boards, and the power of reviews.

From the Greeks to George Lucas, 2,200 years of failure.

Jack Nicholson interviewed at 73.

A year-long investigation of America’s coroners and medical examiners reveals a deeply flawed, deeply troubling system.

On Sam Cooke, theme parties, and the importance of McDonald’s-related jingles when street performing.

A remembrance of relationships formed when the author, at 13 and using a false identity, frequented hockey chat rooms.

On the cloak and dagger dealings between The New York Times and WikiLeaks. Adapted from Executive Editor Bill Keller’s forthcoming ebook, Open Secrets: WikiLeaks, War and American Diplomacy: Complete and Updated Coverage from The New York Times.

What has Ted Haggard, who left the New Life megachurch after admitting he purchased crystal meth and sexual favors from a male escort, been doing in the four years since? Selling insurance door to door and then… founding a new church and returning to the pulpit.

A primer on Peretz, longtime owner/editor of The New Republic, committed Zionist, and author of the line “Muslim life is cheap.”

On the illusion of the inevitable and the revolutions that ended the Eastern Bloc.

Here’s what I really want to do at 32: fuck a girl and then, as she’s sleeping in bed, make breakfast for her. So she’s like, “What? You gave me five vaginal orgasms last night, and you’re making me a spinach omelet? You are the shit!” So she says, “I love this guy.” I say, “I love this girl loving me.” And then we have a problem.

A profile of Roger Ailes, CEO of Fox News.

A quasi-oral history of the party that was JFK’s 1961 inauguration.

A 134-pound magazine writer takes his chances at the U.S. Open sumo championships.

A profile of Jobs. The themes: immortality, relinquishing control, and how being adopted affected his choices for Apple. The lede: “One day, Steve Jobs is going to die.”

A profile of the Time Man of the Year for 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

A famed attorney begins a transformation away from being a man; and dies after a companion shoves her under an oncoming train.

The transfiguration of Jared Loughner.

George Lois never actually worked at Esquire, he simply designed the most iconic magazine covers of the 60s as a moonlighting gig while revolutionizing (and, generally pissing off) the advertising industry by day.

The enigmatic life and death of Bruno Zehnder, who obsessively photographed penguins in the ice fields outside of a Russian base in Antarctica.

On a Duke student’s now infamous Powerpoint presentation of her sexual history; binge-drinking, post-feminism, and Mario Kart.

A profile of the director, written from the set of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.

On Huck Finn, the book Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, and the evolution of language and race in America.

On the expanding community of American parents who believe, despite abundant evidence to the contrary, that there is a link between routine vaccinations and autism.

“As we enter into a new age, maybe art will be free. Maybe the students are right. They should be able to download music and movies. I’m going to be shot for saying this. But who said art has to cost money?”