“Befriending a rock star isn’t necessarily as cool as you’d think—particularly when tragedy happens.”

The singer-songwriter tries to hold down an uncertain moment.

In the bloody civil war, Khaled al-Halabi switched sides. But what country does he really serve?

The behavior geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden is waging a two-front campaign: on her left are those who assume that genes are irrelevant, on her right those who insist that they’re everything.

In the countryside, the endless killing of civilians turned women against the occupiers who claimed to be helping them.

They thought that they’d found the perfect New York apartment. They weren’t alone.

How the writer Jesse Armstrong keeps the billionaire Roy family trapped in its gilded cage.

A journey of recovery through electroconvulsive therapy.

Drought is shrinking one of the country’s largest reservoirs, revealing a hidden Eden.

How a landscape architect is enlisting nature to defend our coastal cities against climate change—and doing it on the cheap.

For years, Hou was the only woman who stood a chance against the very best. But she had her own ambitions.

America’s most fearless satirist has seen his wildest fictions become reality.

Wih Alexey Navalny in prison, one of his closest aides is carrying on the lonely work of the opposition.

Although many Americans see the former police officer’s conviction as just closure, many in Minneapolis view it as the beginning of a larger battle.

On the retirement of Ted Williams.

How the pop star’s father and a team of lawyers seized control of her life—and have held on to it for thirteen years.

After he killed two people in Kenosha, opportunists turned his case into a polarizing spectacle.

The traditional home is under renovation. Can people find meaning in groups?

We’ve barely explored the darkest realm of the ocean. With rare-metal mining on the rise, we’re already destroying it.

Flordelis became famous as a gospel singer, a pastor, and a politician. Then her husband was killed.

Kurtis Minder finds the cat-and-mouse energy of outsmarting criminal syndicates deeply satisfying.

The Havana Syndrome first affected spies and diplomats in Cuba. Now it has spread to the White House.

In the ’90s, a frustrated artist in Berlin went on a crime spree—building bombs, extorting high-end stores, and styling his persona after Scrooge McDuck. He soon became a German folk hero.

As a diagnosis, it’s too vague to be helpful—but its rise tells us a lot about the way we work.

What the sensation of uncontrollable itch and the phantom limbs of amputees can tell us about how the brain works.