'War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war on our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out…You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm as against these terrible hardships of war.'

'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 disorders.'

'Once more he is the center of our sporting lives. Michael Jordan wasn't destined to just fade away.'

What can we learn from wipes, oils, and fats when they overwhelm the arteries of the modern world?

How Columbia University ignored women, undermined prosecutors, and allowed one of its OB/GYNs to abuse hundreds of patients.

Kyiv enlisted a Silicon Valley insider to rush consumer-grade tech onto the battlefield. He’s giving a demo of the future of war: the military-retail complex.

'I don't know what you will make of the following events, and I'm sure many of you might consider it all some sort of hoax. I wasn't present for any of what transpired in Phoenix, Arizona but I can vouch for the person who wrote the following logs. She is not, and has never been, a fantasist.'

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

How do we hire when we can’t tell who’s right for the job?

On a $500 million man-made island in the frozen Arctic Ocean, just off the coast of a vast, uninhabitable tundra known as Alaska’s North Slope, a pipeline begins. In temperatures that hover around forty-five degrees below zero, in perpetual darkness, a tight-knit band of roughnecks spends twelve hours a day, seven days a week, drilling down, down into the earth and pulling up precious crude. If you want to know how badly we need oil, here is your answer