Hollywood is aggressively adapting material that doesn’t have a narrative or even any characters. But not all intellectual property is created equal.

How a dialect coach does her job.

In October, Iraqi forces set out to retake Mosul, one of Iraq’s largest cities and ISIS’s biggest stronghold in the country. It would take them nine months and cost thousands of lives.

On his journey from phenom to champion to wannabe rock star to Emmy-winning commentator, John McEnroe hasn’t changed much.

How the death of a Muslim recruit revealed a culture of brutality.

How a jazz pianist disappeared into his music.

Boko Haram has abducted thousands of children and trained them as soldiers. Four survivors tell their story.

Jonny Sun created a beloved, mega-popular alien character on Twitter. Now he’s trying to figure out everything else.

Her disclosure of classified documents in 2010 ushered in the age of leaks. Now, freed from prison, she talks about why she did it—and the isolation that followed.

Short-seller Andrew Left sniffs out corporate fraud—and gets rich doing it.

Why do America’s black gay and bisexual men have a higher H.I.V. rate than any country in the world?

Deciphering the rise of a lifestyle guru who sells self-absorption as the ultimate luxury product.

One morning in mid-December, a group of soldiers banged on the door of a house in eastern Aleppo. A male voice responded from inside: “Who are you?” A soldier answered: “We’re the Syrian Arab Army. It’s O.K., you can come out. They’re all gone.” The door opened. A middle-aged man appeared. He had a gaunt, distinguished face, but his clothes were threadbare and his teeth looked brown and rotted. At the soldiers’ encouragement, he stepped hesitantly forward into the street. He explained to them, a little apologetically, that he had not crossed his threshold in four and a half years.

What the experiences of nonmonogamous couples can tell us about jealousy, love, desire and trust.

“A 15-story public housing tower and a mortgaged suburban home are both government-subsidized, but only one looks (and feels) that way. It is only by recognizing this fact that we can begin to understand why there is so much poverty in the United States today.”

The fall of a famous anchor.

To support their families back home, women from the Philippines have found work and a new way of life in Israel. But at what price?

An essay about what we’ll lose, and what we’ve already lost.

From “Idiocracy” to “Silicon Valley,” the writer and director has established himself as America’s foremost chronicler of its own self-destructive tendencies.

On becoming a stepmom.

Young people who leave strict Jewish communities face a bewildering, lonely new world. One group helps them navigate it.

On the health care failure and what, if anything, comes next.

Visiting a gargantuan shrine to democracy in 2017.

Stephen Bannon and Jeff Sessions, the new attorney general, have long shared a vision for remaking America. Now the nation’s top law-enforcement agency can serve as a tool for enacting it.

What does it mean to be polite anymore?