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.

An enormous entitlement in the tax code props up home prices—and overwhelmingly benefits the wealthy and the upper middle class.

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?

Feminism brought the opposition together for the Women’s March on Washington. But how long will that last, and how many converts can it win?

A young, shackled black man is shot to death — and the police say he killed himself. The resulting investigation has pitted the victim’s father against the most powerful man in New Iberia, La.

A profile of the Oklahoma City point guard, who is averaging a triple-double in his first season without Kevin Durant.

Late in a career marked by both triumph and tragedy, the author has written a new book exploring the unsettling case of Emmett Till’s father — and the isolation of black men in America.

A Washington tribe expelled 306 of its members. They’re not going quietly.

Did our ancient cousins get a bad rap?