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    The City Born in a DayNew York wasn’t built in a day, but Oklahoma City was, in a bizarre but uniquely American government-sanctioned raid known as the Land Run.
    By Sam Anderson
  2. the true crime wave
    Just a Shot Away: Peace, Love, and Tragedy With the Rolling Stones at AltamontIn just a few fateful minutes, the ideals of the ’60s unraveled.
    By Saul Austerlitz
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    The Company That Invented the iPhone in 1990How a group of ex-Apple employees went from insanely great to greatly insane, accidentally inspiring a generation in the process.
    By Adam Fisher
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    Parker Posey’s Life in Christopher Guest MoviesIn an excerpt from her new memoir, You’re on an Airplane, the actress reflects on Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, and Guest’s zen talents.
    By Parker Posey
  5. science of us
    You’ll Be Happier at Work If Your Job Meets These Two Psychological NeedsOur brains aren’t solely concerned with satisfying basic, organic needs.
    By Dean Burnett
  6. science of us
    What I Learned From Interviewing All the Women I Know About Their OrgasmsWhat would they want a partner to know?
    By Emma Koenig
  7. The Story Behind H. Jon Benjamin’s Failed Children’s Show, Midnight Pajama Jam“As we kept doing the show, our audience didn’t exactly swell.”
    By H. Jon Benjamin
  8. Zora Neale Hurston’s Lost Interview With One of America’s Last Living SlavesIn 1931, she sought to publish an important piece of American history. Instead that oral history languished in a vault. Until now.
  9. science of us
    How Scientists Invented a Test to Measure Hurt Feelings“We found social pain could be as strongly felt as physical pain.”
    By Will Storr
  10. science of us
    When the Hidden Problem With Your Sex Life Is ADHDAs a sex therapist, I see it all the time.
    By Steven Snyder
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    The Untold Story of Jaime Levy, Punk-Rock Cyber-Publishing PioneerHow a punk-rock kid from L.A. created some of the coolest publications of the 1990s.
    By Claire L. Evans
  12. science of us
    The Vampire Movie Obsession That Made Me Reconsider How I Felt About PornLearning the boundaries of healthy escapism through Twilight.
    By Meredith Goldstein
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    Selling Crack to Children: Inside the Silicon Valley Grift Machine“Without rampant, unchecked fraud, I came to realize, the entire digital media business would collapse.”
    By Corey Pein
  14. science of us
    Changing My Style to Mask My Health IssuesAfter major surgery, I had a newfound need for people to find me attractive.
    By Michele Lent Hirsch
  15. science of us
    What People Who Are ‘Lucky in Love’ All Have in CommonAccording to a behavioral scientist.
    By Janice Kaplan and Barnaby Marsh
  16. it’s complicated
    Being in My First Adult Relationship Meant Learning How to FightIt took me a while figure out that conflict wasn’t the sign of an impending breakup.
    By Katie Heaney
  17. politics
    Donald Trump Didn’t Want to Win — and Neither Did His CampaignOne year ago: the plan to lose, and the administration’s shocked first days.
    By Michael Wolff
  18. Tom Petty Wanted to Make Every New Album an EvolutionHis identity was strong enough to be shaped and reshaped without trading in the parts of himself that were defining.
    By Warren Zanes
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    How It Felt to Live Through My First Manic EpisodeI was sixteen, and I believed I was receiving messages from Michael Jackson.
    By Jaime Lowe
  20. science of us
    Being a Funeral Director Made Me Realize the Death Industry is Too ExclusiveAmericans might have a healthier attitude toward death if people like me didn’t keep it so hidden from view.
    By Caleb Wilde
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    Gucci Mane: Mixtapes Saved My CareerGucci Mane on his major-label failure and his radical response: Make as much music as you can, as quickly as you can, and release it all for free.
    By Gucci Mane
  22. science of us
    How Self-Expression Replaced Love As the Most Important Part of a MarriageA new book argues that, in the past few decades, there’s been a dramatic change in what we expect from our spouses.
    By Eli Finkel
  23. it’s complicated
    Why Dating in Your 20s Is TerribleAccording to a social scientist studying generational differences.
    By Jean Twenge
  24. mental health
    The Strange, Contagious History of BulimiaThe physician who wrote the first case report in the 1970s believes it was, at least in part, a social contagion.
    By Lee Daniel Kravetz
  25. The People Whose Genetic Tests Uncover MysteriesDealing with the uncertainty of a little-understood genetic mutation can be harder than just getting bad news.
    By Carrie Arnold
  26. What I Know About My Best Friend’s MurderDespite what the tabloids say, she was more than just Ashton Kutcher’s date.
    By Carolyn Murnick
  27. To Understand Why We Have So Many Languages, Look Way, Way Back in Human HistoryRainfall and warfare are just two of the many factors.
    By Michael Gavin
  28. Cracking the Code of Your Pet’s Facial ExpressionsOne day, we might be able to read animal emotions as well as we do human ones.
    By Mirjam Guesgen
  29. The Sleep Disorder That Makes People Hallucinate Their Own DeathWhen you often fall asleep without warning, it can be hard to distinguish between reality and the terrifying products of your imagination.
    By Michael McGirr
  30. Dogs With OCD Are Helping Scientists Understand the Human VersionIn dogs, the disorder can manifest itself as compulsive tail-chasing, licking, or chewing.
    By Shayla Love
  31. How High-School Popularity Follows You Into AdulthoodYour social status as a teen can shape the way you see the world long after graduation.
    By Mitch Prinstein
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    Eddie Izzard Got Chased by Three Teen Girls on His First Day Wearing a Dress OutIn his memoir Believe Me, the comedian talks about being confronted while changing in a women’s bathroom.
    By Matthew Love
  33. People With Multiple Personalities Are Changing Psychologists’ Idea of the SelfDissociative identity disorder, in which people can have multiple personalities, raises the question: What makes a person who they are?
    By Emma Young
  34. book excerpt
    Why I Risked My Life to Drive in Saudi ArabiaSaudi activist Manal al-Sharif shares the story behind the Women to Drive movement.
    By Manal al-Sharif
  35. performance art
    Be Better at Life by Thinking of Yourself LessThe motivational power of self-transcendence.
    By Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness
  36. When Extreme Déjà Vu Destroys Your Sense of Reality“I routinely struggle to discern the difference between lived events and dreams, between memories, hallucinations and the products of my imagination.”
    By Pat Long
  37. Why Playing Maura on Transparent Makes Jeffrey Tambor ‘Cranky’An excerpt from his new memoir.
    By Jeffrey Tambor
  38. big data
    How to Predict If a Borrower Will Pay You BackPeople who use “God” and “promise” are more likely to default.
    By Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
  39. The Perks of Talking to YourselfIt can be a sign of high cognitive functioning.
    By Paloma Mari-Beffa
  40. What Malpractice Lawsuits Can Teach Us About Coping With Uncertainty“Sometimes there is simply nothing and no one to blame.”
    By Elizabeth L. Silver
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    Leaving Home, When Your Home Is a ConventAnd your dad is a pantsless, gun-toting Catholic priest.
    By Patricia Lockwood
  42. To Make Better Decisions, Ask Yourself ‘What,’ Not ‘Why’’What’ questions help us understand ourselves.
    By Tasha Eurich
  43. Picky Eater? You Might Be a SupertasterOn the other end of the spectrum, the same thing goes for people who are super-adventurous with food.
    By Bob Holmes
  44. vulture cover story
    How David Letterman Became a Gen-X IconHe bailed out of his own jokes and committed to a lack of commitment.
    By Jason Zinoman
  45. cut cover story
    What We Lose When Sex Is All About DangerParanoia rules on today’s college campus.
    By Laura Kipnis
  46. Kids Are Better Friends When They Spend Time Away From ScreensTaking an extended phone break is enough to make them more empathetic.
    By Adam Alter
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    This Is the Scene That Got William Daniels to Play Mr. Feeny on Boy Meets World“Here was a Mr. Feeny I knew I could play.”
    By William Daniels
  48. Sleeping Through the Night Is a Relatively New InventionShorter chunks of shut-eye used to be more normal than one long, uninterrupted snooze.
    By Benjamin Reiss
  49. My Mother’s MurderShe disappeared when I was four. It was years before I understood why.
  50. The 1930s Scientist Who Popularized a Terrifying Brain SurgeryA brief, unsettling history of the lobotomy.
    By Jennifer Wright
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