What's Your Problem?
Accept succession, and other advice
Features
What Makes Us Happy?
An inside look at an unprecedented seven-decade study of a group of Harvard men suggests that one thing, above all, truly makes a difference.
Video: Dr. George Vaillant, director of the 72-year study, explains what makes people strive for fame and why dirty laundry can symbolize a perfect life.
Interview: Ben Bradlee, former executive editor of The Washington Post, talks about his role in the Harvard study.
Interview: Historian Donald Cole, selected to participate in the study in the 1940s, reflects on how it affected his life.
Do CEOs Matter?
Apple’s stock rises and falls with the faintest rumors about Steve Jobs's health. But how much influence do CEOs really have?
Hope Floats
As the recession blows a gale, the world’s most expensive cruise ship nears completion.
Fashion in Dark Times
As the ever-frivolous industry enters a new era, customers are thinking more—a prospect that thrills the best designers
Jacob’s Ladder
Is South Africa's next president a savior, a criminal, a Marxist revolutionary—or all of the above?
Dispatches
As Go the Hippos …
Under the weight of Congo’s civil war, an ecosystem collapses.
Video: Delphine Schrank visits the empty lakes and scattered elephant bones left behind by the DRC's ongoing violence.
Dog Bites Bug
How man’s best friend can help him evict his nastiest bedmate
From Russia, With Self-Loathing
Meet Agniya Kuznetsova, the It Girl for a poorer, darker, angrier Russia.
American Sushi
U.S. chefs are bringing Japan’s trademark cuisine back to its roots.
Slideshow: Trevor Corson visits a diverse group of chefs who are adding new cultural inflections to traditional Japanese sushi making
Cold Fusion
Ice—the most neglected of cocktail ingredients—can ruin a drink or make it come alive.
Beijing’s Almost-Perfect Hotel
The Opposite House is an idealistic island in a country that rarely worries about details
Books
Hemingway's Libidinous Feast
In a restored edition of a great classic, sexual anxiety looms large.
Touched by Evil
The real spiritual drama in Flannery O’Connor’s fiction was even darker than the one she acknowledged.
Cover to Cover
Reconsider the rhino; Nightingale unveiled; admissions of guilt; and more
Columns
Sink and Swim
Bankruptcy helps the undeserving—and that’s the way it should be.
SpongeBob's Golden Dream
The mysterious allure of the fry cook from Bikini Bottom
Video: James Parker deconstructs the tormented irony and contagious optimism of a SpongeBob episode.
Alter Ego 
The 100 Greatest Quotes in 'The Wire' 
Synthetic Biology 
