How Shane Battier could score zero points in an NBA game and still be the most important player on the floor.

A tour of Manhattan’s nightlife.

As a young social psychologist, she played by the rules and won big: an influential study, a viral TED talk, a prestigious job at Harvard. Then, suddenly, the rules changed.

On whether kids should be protected or pushed.

A profile of the goat-herding nationalist intellectual who is leading a movement.

Charles D. King tries to change the entertainment landscape.

How the writer works.

What happens after a defendant is found not guilty by reason of insanity? Often the answer is involuntary confinement in a state psychiatric hospital—with no end in sight.

At the height of the 2016 election, exaggerated reports of a juvenile sex crime brought a media maelstrom to Twin Falls — one the Idaho city still hasn’t recovered from.

How the Kremlin built one of the most powerful information weapons of the 21st century — and why it may be impossible to stop.

They were the first black boys to integrate the South’s elite prep schools. They drove themselves to excel in an unfamiliar environment. But at what cost?

What one Alabama town’s attempt to secede from its school district tells us about the fragile progress of racial integration in America.

By choice, for less than $2 an hour, the female inmate firefighters of California work their bodies to the breaking point. Sometimes they even risk their lives.

A new breed of lobbyist comes to K Street.

The answer may lie with the country’s powerful security agencies.

How dangerous is the media company that Steve Bannon called “the platform for the alt-right”?

A profile of the writer.

When Michael Deng joined an Asian-American frat, he was searching for belonging and identity. Two months later he was dead.

By the time Noura Jackson’s conviction was overturned, she had spent nine years in prison. This type of prosecutorial error is almost never punished.

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.