The planet’s tallest animal is in far greater danger than people might think.

Want to know why wild conspiracism can be so irresistible? Ask a 14-year-old girl.

Here’s what’s become of them.

Three years ago, Seidel began to teach me how to play poker. Why on earth would a professional poker player—the professional poker player—agree to let a random journalist follow him around like an overeager toddler?

A profile of Carrie Lam, Hong Kong’s chief executive.

“Peril is generational for black people in America—and incarceration is our current mechanism for ensuring that the peril continues.”

Black men and women are still dying across the country. The power that is American policing has conceded nothing.

Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles?

“Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.”

“After receiving a trove of documents from the whistleblower, I found myself under surveillance and investigation by the U.S. government.”

American conspiracy theories are entering a dangerous new phase.

A renowned scholar claimed that he discovered a first-century gospel fragment. Now he’s facing allegations of antiquities theft, cover-up, and fraud.

A guide to making sense of a problem that is now too big for any one person to fully comprehend.

A well-known attorney helped land a $2 billion settlement for Gulf Coast seafood-industry workers. But who was he really representing?

A new approach to fighting the opioid crisis as it quietly rages on.

A veteran magazine journalist changes jobs at 57.

The U.S. may end up with the worst COVID-19 outbreak in the industrialized world. This is how it’s going to play out.

When Jake Millison went missing, his family said he’d skipped town. But his friends refused to let him simply disappear.

The Estonia was carrying 989 passengers when it sank in 30-foot seas on its way across the Baltic in September 1994. More than 850 lost their lives. The ones who survived acted quickly and remained calm.

How new technologies and techniques pioneered by dictators will shape the 2020 election.

History’s largest mining operation is about to begin. It’s underwater—and the consequences are unimaginable.

Scientists in Brazil are trying to save the giant anteater from a growing threat: roads.

More than fifteen years after he died, Fred Rogers has never been more revered—or more misunderstood.

When a longtime resident started stealing her neighbors’ Amazon packages, she entered a vortex of smart cameras, Nextdoor rants, and cellphone surveillance.

On the global money laundering conspiracy Liberty Reserve.