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President Obama saw it as a “50–50” proposition. Admiral Bill McRaven, mission commander, knew something would go wrong. So how did the raid that killed bin Laden get green-lighted? In an adaptation…

This mass grave was uncovered in central Aceh, the province where a decade-old case alleges Indonesian soldiers hired by ExxonMobil tortured, killed, and assaulted villagers during a bloody civil…

Stuart Lawley navigates Bear’s Club Drive in his midnight sapphire Rolls-Royce Phantom Coupé, a $464,000, 3-ton, 12-cylinder land yacht so well-engineered that ensconced in its…

In the summer of 1941, delegates at the American Federation of Scientific Astrologers’ convention in Cleveland, Ohio, listened to a keynote address from an astrologer named Louis de Wohl. The…

How John Rabe helped Chinese survive Japan's horrific World War II invasion and became "the living Buddha of Nanking" Chinese civilians held as captives of Japanese troops during the Nanking…

My girlfriend argued no man could be treated by a female therapist because complications due to sexual desire would impede every discussion One night less than two years ago, intoxicated on cheap…

Before the market crashed and home prices tumbled, before federal investigators showed up and hauled away the community records, before her property managers pled guilty for conspiring to rig…

Friday Night Lights, Seasons 15 a television series created by Peter Berg Universal, DVD box sets, Seasons 14, $29.98; Season 5, $34.98 Friday Night Lights a film…

The tragicomic 1961 novel that sprang from Joseph Heller’s experience as a W.W. II bombardier mystified and offended many of the publishing professionals who saw it first. But thanks to a fledgling agent, Candida Donadio, and a young editor, Robert Gottlieb, it would eventually be recognized as one of the greatest anti-war books ever written. In an adaptation from his Heller biography, Tracy Daugherty recalls the tortured eight-year genesis of Catch-22 and its ultimate triumph.