Using several email addresses and a lot of exclamation points, teenager Jonathan Lebed worked finance message boards in the morning before school and made almost a million bucks. Then he made the head of the S.E.C. look like a fool.
It was just a kayaking trip. Then it upended their lives.
The particular sheen of America by Amtrak.
An interview with the comedian.
An interview with Meek Mill.
Are some celebrity mediums fooling their audience members by reading social media pages in advance? A group of online vigilantes is out to prove it.
Nannies and housecleaners have some of the hardest, least secure jobs in the nation. Now they’re organizing to change that.
These women want the right to compete in big-wave contests—and get paid as much as men do.
In the poorest congressional district in the country, where thousands of people are arrested each year, one former cop with a complicated past made high-profile cases fall apart by insisting that the ends justified his means.
Geneticists have begun using old bones to make sweeping claims about the distant past. But their revisions to the human story are making some scholars of prehistory uneasy.
A profile of the woman who wants to declutter the world.
The agonies of being overweight—or running a diet company—in a culture that likes to pretend it only cares about health, not size.
There was no doubt: Jeremy Gross had brutally murdered a convenience store clerk. All that was left to decide was his punishment. Death or life without parole? The story of a capital murder trial, as seen from the jury box.
He helped build an artists’ utopia. Now he faces trial for 36 deaths there.
African Elephants have been killing people, raping rhinos, and exhibiting uncharacteristically aggressive behavior. An investigation reveals deep similarities between elephants’ and humans’ reaction to childhood trauma.
What does it mean for the rest of life on Earth?
At the Jimmy Buffett-branded community, a hint at how increasingly long-lived species might choose to spend their extra decades.
New research is zeroing in on a biochemical basis for the placebo effect — possibly opening a Pandora’s box for Western medicine.
For two decades, domestic counterterrorism strategy has ignored the rising danger of far-right extremism. In the atmosphere of willful indifference, a virulent movement has grown and metastasized.
Saudi Arabia thought a bombing campaign would quickly crush its enemies in Yemen. But three years later, the Houthis refuse to give up, even as 14 million people face starvation.
The Venezuelan maestro of the Los Angeles Philharmonic conjures joy in difficult times.
Could an ex-convict become an attorney?
When Japanese men in their teens and twenties shut themselves in their rooms, sometimes for a period of years, one way to lure them out is a hired “big sister.”
She’s trying to keep comedy alive at a moment when Hollywood—and its audience—can’t seem to crack a smile.
A Philadelphia neighborhood is the largest open-air narcotics market for heroin on the East Coast. Addicts come from all over, and many never leave.
