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Mitch lives in a special place. A facility the state of Washington created for sexual predators. Mitch’s therapists think there’s a chance that Mitch won’t go raping again next time he has the opportunity. Which is a good thing. Because, soon, Mitch and the thirty men who live with him are getting out

Francis Collins, a fervent Christian, thought he had resolved the stem-cell debate. A federal judge disagreed.

A brief history of webism.

Scotland Yard collected evidence indicating that reporters at News of the World might have hacked the phone messages of hundreds of celebrities, government officials, soccer stars — anyone whose personal secrets could be tabloid fodder. Only now, more than four years later, are most of them beginning to find out.

A day in the life of the president reveals that Barack Obama’s job would be almost unrecognizable to most of his predecessors—thanks to the enormous bureaucracy, congressional paralysis, systemic corruption (with lobbyists spending $3.5 billion last year), and disintegrating media.

It has become a truism to note that American television drama is enjoying a golden age. Series such as The Sopranos and The Wire have collected unprecedented plaudits and taken TV writing to a new level, with HBO leading the way in the format. Yet little is known of those who create such shows, and the processes they use.

What would happen if, instead of spare change, you handed a person in need the means to shop for whatever they needed? What would they buy? Can you spare your credit card, sir?

Some 11 years ago I first heard of the strange pastime called ferret legging, and for a decade since then I have sought a publication possessed of sufficient intelligence and vision to allow me to travel to northern England in search of the fabled players of the game.

The oil will have stopped gushing into the Gulf. The shoreline and the estuaries and the beaches will have been scrubbed clean by man and nature. BP and Transocean will have resumed business as usual. But the original wound will never heal. This is the story of what’s been lost.

Science, policy and politics in the minefield.

‘I talk about my years in solitary as if it was the past, but the truth is it never leaves you. In some ways I am still there.’

When it comes to customer service, it seems, people are unhappy no matter what side of the counter they’re on. Why can’t we get it right?

Is it really possible to diagnose such a grown-up affliction in such a young child? And is diagnosing clinical depression in a preschooler a good idea, or are children that young too immature, too changeable, too temperamental to be laden with such a momentous label?

School reformers, including President Obama, often talk about high school “dropout factories.” These are the roughly 2,000 public high schools, about 15 percent of the total, with the nation’s highest dropout rates

Why suburbs, not cities, are the answer.

Criminal profiling made easy.

Its mysterious power may be a clue to a new theory about brains and bodies.

“I may be a thief and a liar,” he says in beguiling Italian-accented French. “But I am going to tell you a true story.”

As it wins the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing, revisit the true story behind one soldier’s last trip home

The effeminate sheep and other problems with Darwinian sexual selection.