Over eight years, through millions of letters, the staff of the White House mailroom read the unfiltered story of a nation.

The Pentagon’s failed campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan left a generation of soldiers with little to fight for but one another.

We knew everything we needed to know, and nothing stood in our way. Nothing, that is, except ourselves.

Inside the growth of Goop — the most controversial brand in the wellness industry.

Attracted by lax regulations, industrial agriculture has descended on a remote valley, depleting its aquifer — leaving many residents with no water at all.

The first female Asian-American playwright on Broadway takes aim at identity and watches the audience squirm.

Hua Qu is fighting to save her husband — one of at least seven U.S. captives in the Islamic Republic being used as pawns in a nearly 40-year secret history of hostage taking.

A pre-eminent expert on large carnivores runs afoul of the enemies of the wolf.

The civil liberties union group fights back.

“In a landscape in which black people dominate the culture but have few recognized channels to respond to it, the show, which stars two American black men, provides a venue for black authority in the mainstream.”

Even soldiers who fight wars from a safe distance have found themselves traumatized.

How the relationship between Canada and America broke.

How the rapper smuggled his radical anticapitalism into his new film Sorry to Bother You.

The people bringing psychedelic drugs into the mental health mainstream.

A profile of New York City Ballet’s resident choreographer.

In the midst of a national crisis, mothers addicted to drugs struggle to get off them — for their babies’ sake, and their own.

It all started with an unclaimed lottery ticket worth millions, soon revealing a string of unlikely winners that pointed to an inside job. But who had rigged the lottery? And how?

A new historical inquiry into the murder of Elwood Higginbotham offers a chance to confront the past.

A profile of the pop star.

He has been president for more than a year—so why is he still holding rallies?

On Montana’s Flathead Indian Reservation, basketball is about much more than winning.

And I fear what it has become.

On the floating villages of the Mekong River and the ethnic Vietnamese who have populated them for generations and are still considered “foreigners” by their Cambodian neighbors.

A profile of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, who “may be the only reliable voice of caution left in an administration inching closer to the brink.”

On the road with the world’s greatest hitchhiker.