A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb. Survivors wonder why they lived when so many others died.

My job title is Medical Actor, which means I play sick. I get paid by the hour. Medical students guess my maladies. I’m called a Standardized Patient, which means I act toward the norms of my...

How I traded an education for a ticket to the ruling class

The long read: As competition for jobs among India’s youth intensifies, the offer of a lucrative career in a call centre can be difficult to turn down – even if the work turns out to be operating a...

The messaging app owned by Facebook has become a major channel for hate speech and false stories in India. The government is demanding changes.

Our best universities have forgotten that the reason they exist is to make minds, not careers

A young Englishman got mixed up in a white-supremacist movement. Then he learned of a plot to kill a politician.

Adolf Eichmann and the banality of evil.

Not by sharing.

A law professor who teaches a class on judgment wouldn’t seem like an obvious mark, would he?

Chagall, Picasso, de Kooning, Dali—a master forger mimicked them all. For two decades, he duped art dealers and collectors. When he was caught, a new con began.

Call it Rich Asshole Syndrome—the tendency to distance yourself from people with whom you have a large wealth differential.

How we “choose” what to eat takes place within a contained food environment shaped by availability and advertising, traditions and trends—and, above all else, economics.

Unfettered genius. Unpredictable rages. Here's what it was like to work at Tesla as Model 3 manufacturing ramped up and the company's leader melted down.

“I wanted them to know James’s heart was safe, that I was going to do everything I could to protect it.”

Rahul Pandita was fourteen years old when he was forced to leave his home in Srinagar along with his family. They were Kashmiri Pandits-the Hindu minority within a Muslim-majority Kashmir that was by...

Coding boot-camp start-up Lambda School has been valued by investors at $150 million — but its job placement rate is much lower than it claims.

Jim Walmsley has smashed records at 50 and 100 miles. Now he hopes to make the Olympics in a distance he’s never run: 26.2 miles.

Perhaps like me you occasionally find yourself scanning the professional autobiographies of other people. Opening the CVs of strangers with whom you have only faintly tangential relationships and...

When does a model own her own image?