A former inmate on justice, violence, and jail time.

“A quarantine facial-hair experiment led me to a deep consideration of my Blackness.”

The Puerto Rican reggaetonero has come to dominate global pop on his own terms.

Over the next decade, the number of elderly homeless Americans is projected to triple.

Against all odds, it really was a refuge of competence, normalcy and transcendent play. But the outside world has a way of sneaking in.

Two men died of meth overdoses at the home of a West Hollywood political donor. Dark conspiracy theories abounded— but the truth is even darker

More than 100,000 city public school students lack permanent housing, caught in bureaucratic limbo that often seems like a trap. This is what their lives are like.

George Floyd’s killing galvanized a nation. But small groups like the queer-led collective Black Visions are channeling that energy into a movement for political change.

The Mews, a father-son team of orthodontists, have an unusual theory about the source of crooked teeth — one that has earned them a following in some of the darker corners of the internet.

Roberto Primero Luis set out across the U.S.-Mexico border last year as previous Guatemalan migrants had. But the crossing has changed.

How the fashion industry collapsed.

A profile of the author at 84.

The refugee and author survived, stateless, for seven years. What’s next?

What the journey of swifts, who spend all their time in the sky, tell us about the future.

African-Americans are 75 percent more likely than others to live near facilities that produce hazardous waste. Can a grass-roots environmental-justice movement make a difference?

Scientists are studying the extreme weather in northern Argentina to see how it works—and what it can tell us about the monster storms in our future.

Young climate activists like Jamie Margolin are building a movement while growing up — planning mass protests from childhood bedrooms and during school.

How do you write about Hollywood’s most self-referential screenwriter at a destabilizing moment in history? It takes more than one draft.

If true justice and equality are ever to be achieved in the United States, the country must finally take seriously what it owes black Americans.

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

Trying to parent my Black teenagers through protest and pandemic.

“I don’t think [the news media] has ever had a good handle on a political moment. It’s not designed for that. It’s designed for engagement.”

Anytime the racial temperature goes up and hell pays a visit to earth, the disappointment takes a holiday. And you fight. You fight because you’re tired. Yet you’re tired because you’ve been fighting. For so long. In waves, in loops, in vacuums, in vain.

William Barr’s state of emergency.

A profile of Broadway producer Jeffrey Seller, whose show makes more than $500,000 in profit every week.