After Julie “Mama Julz” Richards’s own family was nearly destroyed by addiction, fighting back against meth became a personal crusade.

What prompts a woman to exit society and marry God? Inside a modern convent in Texas.

Transition House had to be true to its principles and then it had to leave them behind.

On life after you accomplish your lifelong goal.

Prince had grand plans for his autobiography, but only a few months to live.

What happened when 59-year-old Paralympian Angela Madsen set out to row from California to Hawaii.

There is so much talk now about the art of the film that we may be in danger of forgetting that most of the movies we enjoy are not works of art.

The coronavirus shutdown through the eyes of the recently unemployed.

When he was 2, Strider was severely beaten by his mother’s boyfriend. Today, at 6, Strider lives with his grandparents in rural Maine, in and out of poverty, trying to make it.

An appreciation of the hometown team.

The meanings of coiffure, from follicle to shaft.

The city through the eyes of a four-year-old.

On the legacy of Louisiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Bernette Johnson and her battle with the Deep South’s white power structure.

Sunken by grief, Alenka Artnik found herself alone on a bridge, contemplating suicide. Ten years later, she is the world’s greatest female freediver and getting stronger with each record-breaking plunge. How one woman emerged from mental health struggles to push the limits of the human body.

On the strange ethics of Stieg Larsson’s Millenium trilogy:

What matters instead is the division of the world into good and evil, a division that begins with splitting sex into positive and negative experiences, then ripples out from that in fascinating ways.

The story of the 1977 Revolt at Cincinnati, and the men who changed the course of the NRA forever.

A profile of the writer.

The underbelly of Vox Media’s success.

The twilight of a magazine empire.

A profile of the Poo-Pourri creator.

The elegant science of turning cadavers into compost.

A series of one-sided international love letters.

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Engineer and adventurer Richard Jenkins has made oceangoing robots that could revolutionize fishing, drilling, and environmental science. His aim: a thousand of them.

One year after a 14-year-old basketball player was killed by a stray bullet on a playground court in Queens, his friends and family still don’t have answers—only enduring anguish and a familiar feeling of grief.

He was an early video streaming startup founder who threw parties where celebrities like Bryan Singer had sex with teenage boys. Then, he came to believe that music mogul David Geffen was trying to kill him.