What it means to be beautiful in the most populous country on earth.

How the author’s life changed.

Inside Eva Moskowitz’s quest to combine rigid discipline with a progressive curriculum.

The haunted past of Amy Bishop, a University of Alabama neurobiologist who shot six colleagues during a staff meeting.

Boko Haram, climate change, predatory armies, and extreme hunger are converging on a marginalized population in Central Africa.

CO2 could soon reach levels that, it’s widely agreed, will lead to catastrophe.

A former journalist, equipped with an algorithm and the largest collection of murder records in the country, finds patterns in crime.

The dramatic imbalance in pay and power has created the conditions for abuse.

In dozens of criminal trials, prosecutors have put the same gun in the hands of more than one defendant.

On the thriving small town of Orange City, Iowa and what it can teach us about what it means when Americans decide to leave home or stay put.

On the relative plausibility of impossible beings.

Kurdish revolutionaries helped the U.S. expel the Islamic State from its capital city. Will we soon abandon them?

Following the fraudsters who use gods and myth to steal from the elderly.

The Sackler dynasty’s ruthless marketing of painkillers has generated billions of dollars—and millions of addicts.

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

Imagining the alternative.

How Mike Enoch went from progressive to fascist.

Multiple women share harrowing accounts of sexual assault and harassment by the film executive.

Inside the big and not especially scientific business of lavender and frankincense.

Guardians can sell the assets and control the lives of senior citizens without their consent—and reap a profit from it.

On the insanity of America’s gun laws.

A profile of the attorney.

On the Miss America pageant.

On Amaka Osakwe and life as a woman in Lagos.

A profile of Ernest Hemingway.