A profile.

“And while maybe you don’t care if Justin Bieber ever does make his way back to a kind of normalcy, perhaps you can admit there is at least something admirable, in the abstract, about someone finding a way to survive, and even to become kind, when all they’ve been taught since a young age, by millions of adoring people, is that there is no need for them to be kind at all. And if that doesn’t move you, then maybe you can at least find sociological interest in the process that Bieber is about to recount here, which is how you turn into someone you don’t want to be, and what you do about it once you decide you want to be someone else. Someone better, even.”

The actor and director is the one thing we can all agree on.

Tech oracle Jaron Lanier warned us all about the evils of social media.

Joshua Williams was 18 when he was arrested in 2014 for stealing a bag of chips and lighting a QuikTrip trash can on fire in the aftermath of a protest sparked by the death of Antonio Martin near Ferguson, MO. He is still in prison.

A man named Tristan Beaudette was killed while camping in Malibu Creek State Park with his two young daughters. For residents, it became a true crime sensation. But for his family, it was something very different.

A profile of Harmony Korine, the creator of Kids, Spring Breakers, and The Beach Bum.

The author spends time with the reporters fighting to keep news alive in an age when the forces they cover are working equally hard to destroy them.

A profile of the director.

The disappearance of a once ubiquitous movie star.

A profile of the director.

How young actors are navigating the new world of opportunities on our ever-shrinking screens.

A profile of 24-year-old John John Florence.

An essay on clothing in uncertain times.

Just don’t call it Jurassic Park.

"Los Angeles is a weird, complicated town for him. It's where all the record labels are, for one thing. And Chancelor Bennett, as he was born, is unsigned. Won't sign. It's maybe the most interesting, improbable music-industry story going right now—a young, obviously gifted rapper, universally hailed as the heir to Kanye and leader of a new generation of Internet-savvy kids who think of Jay Z as a failed tech entrepreneur, now on his fourth year of refusing to sign with a label."

A profile of the Carolina Panthers quarterback.

Talking to Lee Daniels about Empire, Hollywood, and survival.

The search for an Iraq veteran on the brink of suicide.

On Kendall Jenner, public versus private lives, and the American Dream.

The former Beastie Boy, 48, tries to figure out what’s next.

On the actress’s stellar year.

Retracing Hunter S. Thompson’s steps 40 years later.

“Like they said in Step Brothers: Never lose your dinosaur. This is the ultimate example of a person never losing his dinosaur. Meaning that even as I grew in cultural awareness and respect and was put higher in the class system in some way for being this musician, I never lost my dinosaur.”

Making vision boards with rap’s strangest fallen star.