A son’s love letter to his sick mom.

A former staffer on how the company failed its female employees.

After his father died in an Airbnb rental, the writer investigates what the company can do to improve safety.

She was a Canadian student whose travels brought her to the cheap hotel on Skid Row. The only clue in her disappearance was a strange elevator video in which she peeks and then gestures with her hands down an unseen hallway.

A Texas love story.

The disappearance of the Ghost Boat and its 243 passengers off the Libyan coast.

Going “Full Mickey” at Disneyland.

What the internet looks like to someone who spent the past six years in an Iranian prison.

A Rwandan refugee grows up in America.

Doc was a medical student in his 40s, but he spent his nights with the teenagers who hung around his San Antonion apartment complex, buying them drugs and booze. The first time he asked one of them to ritualistically kill him, they laughed it off. He would ask again.

Everyone just wants to know if he’s going to the football game.

There are two roles to play in the new world of on-demand everything: royalty or servant.

Giving up the iPhone ghost, and other forays into knock-off technology.

Critics call it “the radio of pimps and vagina-sellers.” But a popular new call-in show is helping a generation of Afghans navigate a battlefield full of strife and confusion and fear: modern love.

A baby dies after hitting his head when his father drops him, and the investigation that ensues can’t offer any easy answers.

Living with hypersomnia, a disorder marked by sleeping dozens of hours straight and still never feeling truly awake.

Sheikh Humarr Khan was a globally renowned expert in tropical diseases, and the hero who ran Sierra Leone’s worst Ebola ward. So why, when he finally fell ill, was he denied the extraordinary treatments that could have saved him?

Designing your own narcotics online isn’t just easy—it can be legal, too.

When 16 women live in a house, compete on a UFC reality show, and punch each other in the face.

Learning about death from a sixth-generation funeral director.

An illustrated look at modern love, texting, and sex.

Mars One says it will send four people to colonize the planet by 2025. The company claims more than 200,000 have paid to apply for the privilege. But a deep look at Mars One’s plan and its finances reveals that not only is the goal a longshot, it might be a scam.

The Nigerian schoolgirls who escaped Boko Haram.

A hardcore night of Dungeons & Dragons with artist Zak Smith and his coterie of porn star players.

Paula Deen’s martyrdom industrial complex. On a cruise ship.