A bulletin from our climate future.

For a period of time in 2013, the Times reported this year, a full half of YouTube traffic was “bots masquerading as people,” a portion so high that employees feared an inflection point after which YouTube’s systems for detecting fraudulent traffic would begin to regard bot traffic as real and human traffic as fake. They called this hypothetical event “the Inversion.”

What happened to the group of bright college students who fell under the sway of a classmate’s father?

In 2005, the painting sold at auction for $1,000. Its most recent price? $450 million.

The paper spiked a #MeToo story. Why?

A profile of the designer, who died on February 19, 2019.

On the cutthroat dealings of the porta-potty business.

The making, and marketing, of a 9-year-old meme machine.

I went through puberty at age 2.

Two decades after his last deadly act of ecoterrorism, the Unabomber has become an unlikely prophet to a new generation of acolytes.

How the VFX industry plateaued —and where it might go from here.

The haunting of 657 Boulevard in Westfield, New Jersey.

The predatory trainer may have just taken down USA Gymnastics. How did he deceive so many for so long?

David Boies argued Bush v. Gore all the way to the Supreme Court. He lost the case, but in the process gained another client: Harvey Weinstein.

On trying to figure out what’s next.

A profile of Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren.

How Fortnite became the Instagram of gaming.

On the trail with the convicted felon and would-be Mini Trump.

“In fact, in private conversations, Obama rarely mentions Trump at all. Those who’ve visited the office he’s leased from the World Wildlife Fund in Washington’s West End say he’s eager to talk for hours about the world’s ills. When informed about the latest presidential tweetstorms aimed at him, he chuckles and changes the subject. One friend of Obama’s recalled that after a 45-minute meeting that avoided the subject of Trump entirely, the pair ducked into an aide’s office and saw on television that the president was claiming to have been absolved in the Russia inquiry. Obama’s eyes flicked toward the chyron and his face took on a decidedly bemused aspect for a beat before he turned back to their conversation as if nothing had happened.”

How Shane Smith built Vice.

How Neil Gorsuch became the second-most-polarizing man in Washington.

Doug Schifter waged a one-man campaign to stop Uber from putting his fellow black-car drivers out of business. Then he decided to take his own life.

The wondrous—and occasionally weird—relationship between the children’s-music superstar, his fans, and the man he used to be.

To understand the rise of Donald Trump is to understand his mentor, Roy Cohn — and the New York City establishment that aided and abetted him.

The stories of 35 women who were assaulted by Bill Cosby.