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Puff Daddy’s ‘No Way Out’ Turns 20

The Ketchup Conundrum

Christians Were Strangers

Let them eat bread

Meet the Man Who Has Lived Alone on This Island for 28 Years

This Poisonous Cult of Personality

How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You've Ever Met

Why Actors Love to Play Churchill

‘Boy’, new short fiction

The Obsidian Serpent

Why Is Giving Birth So Hard?

Before the pot, the basket, was the gourd

Sade’s Eternal Cool

Why did we start farming?

The secret tricks hidden inside restaurant menus

How Sicily became ungovernable

Soap and South Africa’s ‘Fatal Intimacy

Patrick Ewing has the floor

One Of The Few Places Where A Communist Can Still Dream

How the sandwich consumed Britain

On Christopher Okigbo

The Future of Online Dating Is Unsexy and Brutally Effective

Why Beauty Is Not Universal

The Two Voices of Whitney Houston

The Rich History of Color, and Why It’s So Hard to Choose a Favorite

Become an FT subscriber to read: Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka on coup culture and challenging Castro

Why Clocks Run Clockwise (And Some Watches And Clocks That Don't)

The Gruesome, Bloody World Of Victorian Surgery

Promethea Unbound

The Tabloid Triangle

How flying seriously messes with your mind

The Merciless Champ Of Congo’s Mystical Wrestling League

Glossing Africa

How a Hit Happens Now

A Decomposing Body, 10 Duped Girlfriends And The Saga Of The 'alien' Con Man In Hollywood's Backyard

Meet the Hands (and the Man) that Bring Chance the Rapper to the Deaf

Reasons for Corbyn

The inside story of Labour’s election shock

The 150 Greatest Albums Made By Women

The daredevil, his helicopter, the risk of flying too high and the birth of mordern news

Beautiful

The Rise and Fall of F. Lee Bailey, the Lawyer Who Set O.J. Simpson Free

The Not-so-secret Ingredients Of Military Coups

The girl who remembers everything

Back from the Underworld

The Ghostly Radio Station That No One Claims To Run

This Tiny Country Feeds the World

Billie Holiday

You Are the Product

Uncovering The Secret History Of Myers-Briggs

Satiate

A history of album artwork

Mark Lilla Vs. Identity Politics

How Driscoll’s Reinvented The Strawberry

The devastation of black Wall Street

A Brief history Of Exclusion And Electoral Trauma in Kenya

First impressions count

Inside The Lab That's Quantifying Happiness

How data analytics killed the Premier League's long ball game

Why do stars like Adele keep losing their voice?

A Place For The Soul To Sing: The Church Of St. John Coltrane

D.I.Y. Artificial Intelligence Comes to a Japanese Family Farm

The Body Language Of Power

The Lunar Sea

The Fallacy of the Olympics

Not Fuzz

Why there’s no such thing as a gifted child

Why Do Rich People Love Endurance Sports?

The Drug Runners

Why You Need Emoji

How Lego clicked: the super brand that reinvented itself

‘The Jordan Rules’ Was The Mother Of All Woj Bombs

Meet The People Who Battle To Be The Top Reply To A Trump Tweet

Why are there two sexes?

My Dentist’s Murder Trial

How totalism works

His Biggest Hit Sold More Copies Than Any Of The Beatles’. So Why Haven’t You Heard Of Him?

Muhammad Ali, At Rest

Tomorrow I’ll Be Twenty

Social media and the great recipe explosion: does more mean better?

This Common Butterfly Has An Extraordinary Sex Life

Leaked recording: Inside Apple’s global war on leakers

Power Causes Brain Damage

Papers, Please: The Invention of the Passport

Holy Sex

The Thoughts of a Spiderweb

A Sociology of the Smartphone

What Duck Sex Reveals about Human Nature

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours

From Russia With Blood

The Man Who Stands in Line for a Living

The Anatomy of Finickiness: On Alexander Theroux’s “Einstein’s Beets: An Examination of Food Phobias”

For Deaf Tennis Player, Sound Is No Barrier

Why Men Don’t Live As Long As Women

Soccer for Intellectuals

The White Wedding Dress Industrial Complex

The Fairy Tales That Predate Christianity

From London to Lagos, Exploring the Premier League's African Appeal

Tuesdays With Zinsser

The Story of Patel Brothers, the Biggest Indian Grocery Store in America

The Crop That Ate America

God’s Children Are Little Broken Things

When Your Child Is A Psychopath

Why We Lie: The Science Behind Our Deceptive Ways

More Is More

Inside Italy's Manager School, Where Conte, Ancelotti and Allegri Learned to Win

AfroNation: Fela’s Vagabonds In Power

How Intel Makes A Chip

The Spectacular Return of the Pigmy Mother

The Life of a Professional Guinea Pig

Maaza Mengiste Talks about Ethiopian Women and her Forthcoming Book

Now THAT was music

Wooing a City: Nairobi Origins

I come from a place on your bucket list

Chris Rock in a Hard Place: On Infidelity, His New Tour and Starting Over

How Hollywood Remembers Steve Bannon

Thank inventor Margaret E. Knight for the modern marvel that is the paper bag

Orator-in-Chief

What makes clowns, vampires and severed hands creepy?

Leaving Gotham City

The benefits of solitude

What bullets do to bodies

Shazam for Mosquitoes

Things I Didn’t Know

Domino’s Atoned For Its Crimes Against Pizza And Built A $9 Billion Empire

The kingdom of women: the society where a man is never the boss

We’re Living in the Golden Age of the Corporate Takedown

Where Prince Charles Went Wrong

Shell Codes

“He Didn’t Fit the Mold of a Revolutionary”

What would Jesus disrupt

Tears

Hot Food, Fast: The Home Microwave Oven Turns 50

Becoming Rihanna

The Life Lessons of Villanova’s Jay Wright, the Anti-Coach

A day in the life of India

The ultimate number 9: Ronaldo

Mosquitoes, Get Ready For Your Close-up

Primary education in Nsukka

‘Bro, I’m Going Rogue’: The Wall Street Informant Who Double-Crossed the FBI

What the nose knows

The Somalification of James Karangi

The Spiritual Life Of The Long-distance Runner

A Town Under Trial

Meet Biddy Mason, one of LA’s first black real estate moguls

Manchester's Cold War

Voice and Hammer

The Choke Artist

16 Things You Didn’t Know About Avocados

Women Can’t Be Heroes

Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds

I thought I was smarter than almost everybody': my double life as a KGB agent

Since Everything Was Suddening Into A Hurricane

How the Flash Crash Trader’s $50 Million Fortune Vanished

The Anatomy of Charisma

Tim Harford, The Undercover Economist

How an Ethiopian slave became a South African teacher

How to build a medieval castle

Pants For the Cost of A Postage Stamp

How To Buy A Soul

Willpower is a dangerous, old idea that needs to be scrapped

M.I.A

Our 9,000-Year Love Affair With Booze

The $99 Billion Idea

Russia: Life After Trust

Ralph Tresvant: Why Wasn’t New Edition’s Frontman a Bigger Star?

The untold story of the Bastille Day attacker

Marooned Among the Polar Bears

She’ll Text Me, She’ll Text Me Not

Escape Artist Harry Houdini Was an Ingenious Inventor, He Just Didn’t Want Anybody to Know

Gettin kinda hectic

A Guy Walks Into a Bar…and Is Never Seen Again

Living in Andy Cohen’s America

Murder On Union Hill Road

Why Killer Whales (and Humans) Go Through Menopause

Why Gil Scott-Heron Wrote “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”

Debutante in the Amazon Jungle: A 50-Year Adventure

Becoming Michael Lewis

How Stevie Wonder Helped Create Martin Luther King Day

How Deutsche Bank’s “Wiz” Kid Fell to Earth

In The Air Again

The Binoculars of Jah

The Sugar Wars

Why time management is ruining our lives

The Man Who Cleans Up After Plane Crashes