Inequality isn’t only plaguing America—the Arab Spring flowered because international capitalism is broken. Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz says the world is finally rising up and demanding a democracy where people, not dollars, matter—the best government that money can buy just isn’t good enough.

Ultramarathon legend Micah True, a.k.a. Caballo Blanco, went out for a run and never returned. Nick Heil on what happened.

The iconic writer scolds the superrich (including himself—and Mitt Romney) for not giving back, and warns of a Kingsian apocalyptic scenario if inequality is not addressed in America.

One of the most famous charities in the U.S., Lance Armstrong’s Livestrong has a record of being a trademark bully. Alex Heard reports on their fight against a trainer and others.

From Albert Nobbs to Dancing With the Stars to the Work It controversy to the Girl Scouts, transgender issues are everywhere.

One of the nation’s highest-paid executives is sitting on a massive pile of stock options and enjoys a private jet wherever he goes. Gary Rivlin on John Hammergren, the 1 percenter you’ve never heard of.

Actor and author Stephen Fry salutes Christopher Hitchens as an inspiring polemicist but also as an abiding fan of P. G. Wodehouse and a magnificent writer.

Christopher Hitchens confronted death with the same furious bravura that he deployed against purveyors of unreasoned pieties.

To understand war and its costs, one should turn to one writer.