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Why Suicide Has Become an Epidemic--and What We Can Do to Help
0Opinions0Comment0ShareNext Story WHEN THOMAS Joiner was 25 years old, his father—whose name was also Thomas Joiner and who could do anything—disappeared from the family’s home. At the time, Joiner was a graduate student at the University of Texas, studying clinical psychology. His focus was depression, and it was obvious to him that his father was depressed. Six weeks earlier, on a family trip to the Georgia coast, the gregarious 56-year-old—the kind of guy who was forever talking and laughing and bending people his…
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Blow Hard by Gus Garcia-Roberts
When Scott Storch was 8 years old, he was dizzied by a soccer cleat to the head. His mom did not take such injuries in stride. She had been apoplectic when Scott lost his baby teeth in a living-room dive five years earlier, leaving him with a Leon…
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
I: The Witness “I am a whistle-blower,” he says. “I am notorious. It is a kind of infamy doing what I am doing, isn’t that what they say?” It was never Jeffrey Wigand’s ambition to become a central…
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The Suspects Wore Louboutins
Eighteen-year-old Alexis Neiers, days after her arraignment for being an alleged member of the Bling Ring. Photograph by Susanna Howe. View complete credits. Alexis Neiers told cops that she and Nick…
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Billy Joel on Not Working and Not Giving Up…
Billy Joel in Sag Harbor, N.Y., with his pug, Sabrina. Billy Joel hasn’t put out an album of new songs in decades, but the last few years have brought about a…
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Freeway Rick Is Dreaming
L.A.’s most famous dopeman was doing life. I was writing his obituary. It was a bright January morning in 1998, early into Ricky Ross’s sentence, and I had driven up the California…
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The Mag Archives: Rick Lopez's real life
This story appeared in ESPN The Magazine's Jan. 31, 2005, issue. Subscribe today!HE CALLED HIMSELF the god of basketball, and they believed. He shouted and stomped on the sideline, then smiled when…
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Facebook, One Year Later: What Really Happened in…
Uma Swaminathan tuned the television set in the living room of her ranch style home in the suburbs of East Brunswick, N.J. to CNBC. It was 9:00 a.m. on May 18, 2012, a day the retired schoolteacher…
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Here Comes the White-Power Safety Patrol
Members of the White Student Union, from left to right (they agreed to participate on condition we only used their first names): Sean, Ken, Paddy, Matthew Heimbach, Addie, and Shayne. Photos by…
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The Steve Jobs emails that show how to win a…
The US government’s price-fixing lawsuit against Apple goes to trial next month in New York. Ahead of its court date, the US released emails that purport to show Apple was the “ringleader” in a…
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When Hollywood Wants Good, Clean Fun, It Goes to…
Christina Skyles (purple hair), Allen Ostergar (center, to right of tree) and other students from the B.Y.U. animation program. More Photos »
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Revenge, ego, and the corruption of Wikipedia
In the wee hours of the morning of January 27, 2013, a Wikipedia editor named “Qworty” made a series of 14 separate edits to the Wikipedia page for the late writer Barry Hannah, a well-regarded…
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A Closer Walk With Thee
Just past noon on a Saturday in early March, the first warm weekend of the year, the only sound on South Kent Street was a screen door slapping behind two teenage girls as they crossed a short lawn.…
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Daniel Dennett's seven tools for thinking
Daniel Dennett: 'Often the word "surely" is as good as a blinking light locating a weak point in the argument.' Photograph: Peter Yang/August 1 USE YOUR MISTAKESWe have all heard the forlorn refrain:…
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The Girl Who Turned to Bone
When Jeannie Peeper was born in 1958, there was only one thing amiss: her big toes were short and crooked. Doctors fitted her with toe braces and sent her home. Two months later, a bulbous swelling…
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Jerry Brown's Political Reboot
The Californian One Friday morning this spring, I drove to Washington’s Dulles airport at dawn, to catch the first nonstop flight to San Francisco. When I got off the plane six hours later, the…
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Searching for Dwight Howard
The uncertain destiny of the self-proclaimed Superman can be broken down into 10 simple realitiesYou know where this is headed. Unless Patrick Beverley comes flying out of the stands to take out…
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Starters Guide to iOS Design
As someone who does work on both the development and design side of iOS apps I find that many designers struggle with the transition to UI work, or with the different processes involved in iPhone and…
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Jack London's Journalism:The Story of an…
Upon receipt of the first news of the earthquake, Collier's telegraphed to Mr. Jack London-who lives only forty miles from San Francisco-requesting him to go to the scene of the disaster and write the story of what he saw. Mr. London started at…
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Slippery Business
“Fraud is so widespread that few growers can make an honest living,” one expert says. On August 10, 1991, a rusty tanker called the Mazal II docked at the industr