A profile of Sam Shepard.

A case of mistaken identity leads to the prosecution of an ordinary Eritrean for human smuggling.

A profile of London’s mayor.

“My cousin became a convicted felon in his teens. I tried to make sure he got a second chance. What went wrong?”

In a purgatory-like immigration center, a woman awaits the arrival of her son.

A profile of Dr. Seuss.

Ten years in the life of a young woman from the Bronx.

“The murder of Anna Politkovskaya was at once unbelievable and utterly expected.”

What a state can teach us about a nation.

A local environmental activist fights to prepare her community for life beyond mining.

How an economic boom and deep gender inequality have created a new industry.

A profile of Whole Foods CEO John Mackey.

DNA evidence exonerated six convicted killers. So why do some of them recall the crime so clearly?

West Virginia has the highest overdose death rate in the country. Locals are fighting to save their neighbors—and their towns—from destruction.

Learning Arabic in Cairo after the Arab Spring.

Colombia’s FARC guerrillas face a new battle: re-joining society.

An eccentric man becomes a strange fixture in a toy store.

A profile of the former acting attorney general.

Steidl, who is sixty-six, is known for fanatical attention to detail, for superlative craftsmanship, and for embracing the best that technology has to offer. "He is so much better than anyone,” William Eggleston, the American color photographer, told me, when I met him recently in New York. Steidl has published Eggleston for a decade; two years ago, he produced an expanded, ten-volume, boxed edition of “The Democratic Forest,” the artist’s monumental 1989 work. Eggleston passed his hand through the air, in a stroking gesture. “Feel the pages of the books,” he said. “The ink is in relief. It is that thick.”

A brutal custody battle raises questions about who has a right to rear a child and what the legal meaning of a family should be.

Life as a pageant queen in Plant City, Florida.

On a comic offering portrayals of secular Muslims that American audiences rarely see.

The Constitution offers two main paths for removing a President from office.

In an Oklahoma City neighborhood usually left off city maps, the federal government is implementing its $300 million anti-poverty plan: teaching poor Americans how to get married.

The greatest writers of the nineteenth century were drawn to the North Pole. What did they hope to find there?