A profile.

“We need a new language for talking about poverty. ‘Nobody who works should be poor,’ we say. That’s not good enough. Nobody in America should be poor, period.”

Black excellence in the land of tennis.

The 20-year-old is poised to burst into the top tier of women’s tennis. Can she also burst Japan’s expectations of what it means to be Japanese?

From HBO to ‘Star Wars’ to Shakespeare, he has discovered how to excel beyond tidy genres.

The strange life of a 16-year-old model.

Almond growing in California is a $7.6 billion industry that wouldn’t be possible without the 30 billion bees (and hundreds of human beekeepers) who keep the trees pollinated — and whose very existence is in peril.

Over eight years, through millions of letters, the staff of the White House mailroom read the unfiltered story of a nation.

The Pentagon’s failed campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan left a generation of soldiers with little to fight for but one another.

We knew everything we needed to know, and nothing stood in our way. Nothing, that is, except ourselves.

Inside the growth of Goop — the most controversial brand in the wellness industry.

Attracted by lax regulations, industrial agriculture has descended on a remote valley, depleting its aquifer — leaving many residents with no water at all.

The first female Asian-American playwright on Broadway takes aim at identity and watches the audience squirm.

Hua Qu is fighting to save her husband — one of at least seven U.S. captives in the Islamic Republic being used as pawns in a nearly 40-year secret history of hostage taking.

A pre-eminent expert on large carnivores runs afoul of the enemies of the wolf.

The civil liberties union group fights back.

“In a landscape in which black people dominate the culture but have few recognized channels to respond to it, the show, which stars two American black men, provides a venue for black authority in the mainstream.”

Even soldiers who fight wars from a safe distance have found themselves traumatized.

How the relationship between Canada and America broke.

Inside Nxivm.

How the rapper smuggled his radical anticapitalism into his new film Sorry to Bother You.

The people bringing psychedelic drugs into the mental health mainstream.

A profile of New York City Ballet’s resident choreographer.

In the midst of a national crisis, mothers addicted to drugs struggle to get off them — for their babies’ sake, and their own.

It all started with an unclaimed lottery ticket worth millions, soon revealing a string of unlikely winners that pointed to an inside job. But who had rigged the lottery? And how?