In the 1990s investigative reporter Gary Webb broke the story linking the CIA with drug traffickers. Then his own fellow journalists effectively ruined him. Enter Hollywood.

Much of the 20th century was spent trying to fix the problems of the city by destroying it, but the 21st century will be an urban one. It was a long, ugly fight, and the city has won.

"Poems are a record of failure," says the poet Ben Lerner—art, too, by extension. But does that argument apply to the stranger corners of the Internet?

Plenty of companies are feeding data to computers in the hopes of replicating human behavior, but how close can machines truly get if all they have to work on is the information we offer?

On getting your husband motivated now that you're pregnant, handling a herpes diagnosis, and quitting smoking when your boss won't let you.