Caveh Zahedi’s abject, self-defeating, ethically questionable, maddeningly original approach to documentary.

For eight hours last fall, Paradise, Calif., became a zone at the limits of the American imagination — and a preview of the American future.

The latest research suggests it’s not far-fetched at all—especially when you consider all the societal and cultural factors that make today’s games so attractive.

Maria Ressa, editor of a popular news site in the Philippines, has incurred President Duterte and his supporters’ wrath by investigating his extrajudicial killing campaign.

Fentanyl is quickly becoming America’s deadliest drug. But law enforcement couldn’t trace it to its source—until one teenager overdosed in North Dakota.

A circle of young black playwrights is doing some of the most vital work in American theater. And Perry is at its center.

An oral history of the war in Afghanistan.

After two officers came to a Pacific Northwest community, longtime residents began to disappear.

A cloud enthusiast becomes an advocate for a new type of cloud.

Malfunctions caused two deadly crashes. But an industry that puts unprepared pilots in the cockpit is just as guilty.

Elite schools say they’re looking for academic excellence and diversity. But their thirst for tuition revenue means that wealth trumps all.

On the nature of coincidence.

He helped build an artists’ utopia. Now he faces trial for 36 deaths there.

Do spirituality and self-help have a political constituency?

The W.N.B.A. is putting on some of the best pro basketball in America.

A profile of Tyshawn Jones, “one of the most exciting skateboarders in a generation.”

A lawsuit against Harvard forces students to choose sides.

“Neil Young is crankier than a hermit being stung by bees. He hates Spotify. He hates Facebook. He hates Apple. He hates Steve Jobs. He hates what digital technology is doing to music.”

How the first Williams sister changed the course of women’s tennis.

On the “white gold” that fueled slavery.

Our founding ideals of liberty and equality were false when they were written. For generations, black Americans have fought to make them true.

He dreamed of educating the children in his village. But soon he learned that it was dangerous for the Rohingya to dream.

An interview with the actor.

The author at 84.

The author teaches a college class about what it means to be white in America, but interrogating that question as a black woman in the real world is much harder to do.