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...

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.

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

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?