As ISIS retreats, new horrors emerge for a Sunni family.

The largest crowdfunding site in the world puts up a mirror to who we are and what matters most to us. Try not to look away.

Why everything is getting louder.

In the early 1960s, the paranoid Hoffa asked Chuckie to buy thousands of copies of George Orwell’s 1984 and distribute them to union locals around the country. “Some of these poor guys, the only thing they knew was how to drive a truck or work at a warehouse,” Chuckie told me. “They didn’t have the knowledge of the electronic shit. Mr. Hoffa wanted them to read that book and said that this is what’s going to happen to not only us but to everybody—and exactly what he’s predicted has happened.”

Inside the battle between Ivanka and Don Jr. to be next in line.

A story of two births.

A tale of missing money, heated lunchroom arguments, and flaxseed pizza crusts.

In his old life, Matthew Cox told stories to scam his way into millions of dollars. Now he’s trying to make it by selling tales that are true.

Why don’t police catch serial rapists?

For nearly a century, an oak in a German forest has helped lonely people find love—including the mailman who delivers its letters.

Five years ago, the flight vanished into the Indian Ocean. Officials on land know more about why than they dare to say.

The need for a new letter on an old manual machine leads the author to the shop of Martin Tytell — repairman, historian, and high priest of typewriters.

It’s much less scientific—and more prone to gratuitous procedures—than you may think.

Thea Hunter was a promising, brilliant scholar. And then she got trapped in academia’s permanent underclass.

Donald Cline must have thought no one would ever know. Then DNA testing came along.

On the book that Hitler called his “bible” and the man who wrote it.

“I had inherited a Rolodex full of useful phone numbers (the College Board, a helpful counselor in the UCLA admissions office), but the number I kept handing out was that of a family therapist.”

As early as 1948, the Oscars sucked.

What science can tell us about how other creatures experience the world.

On the grief that comes with losing livestock.

The story of Dr. Sherman Hershfield, who became Dr. Rapp.

On conservative radio host John Ziegler and “the strange media landscape in which political talk radio is a salient.”

What it’s like to be too big in America.

How Black America talks to the White House.

The untold story of how anger became the dominant emotion in our politics and personal lives—and what we can do about it.