A profile of Jenny Offill, whose latest novel addresses climate collapse.

The inside story of the president and Deutsche Bank, his lender of last resort.

As the city is transformed by gentrification and inequality, comedies have begun depicting it as a place of magical connection.

When Zulhumar Isaac’s parents disappeared amid a wave of detentions of ethnic minorities, she had to play a perilous game with the state to get them back.

On the shared life of Tatiana and Krista Hogan:

The girls’ doctors believe it is entirely possible that the sensory input that one girl receives could somehow cross that bridge into the brain of the other. One girl drinks, another girl feels it.

On Rudolph Giuliani and the enduring power of shamelessness.

The enigmatic leader of the U.A.E. may soon emerge as the region’s most powerful figure. What does he really want?

A new genetic engineering technology could help eliminate malaria and stave off extinctions — if humanity decides to unleash it.

“I wanted to be prepared for the worst nature could throw at me. But the real threat turned out to be human.”

Home-funeral guides believe that families can benefit from tending to—and spending time with—the bodies of their deceased.

In 1964, with “Seven Up!” Michael Apted stumbled into making what has become the most profound documentary series in the history of cinema. Fifty-five years later, the project is reaching its conclusion.

The first magazine profile of the actor in more than 20 years.

The film is a rare portrayal of black people in our fullness—angry and frightened and hurt, euphoric and loving and free.

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.

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.