Children film themselves chewing, whispering and tapping to give their adult audience an ASMR buzz. But at what cost?

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.

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.

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.

The coronavirus shutdown through the eyes of the recently unemployed.

The story of how federal authorities blew the biggest anti-terror investigation of the past decade—the post-9/11 anthrax attacks—and nearly destroyed an innocent man.

The global scramble for this vital item has exposed the harsh realities of international politics and the limits of the free market.

A Profile Auditor goes sniffing after anomalies in the consumption habits and personal data of an unsuspecting hotel clerk.

Raheel Siddiqui was a young Muslim who dreamed of becoming a Marine. At twenty, he started basic training at Parris Island, where barking drill sergeants transform callow recruits into elite killing machines. Less than two weeks after he arrived, Siddiqui suffered a mysterious and fatal fall. The Marine Corps says he committed suicide, but some think more sinister forces led to his death.

When Raymond Stansel was busted in 1974, he was one of Florida’s biggest pot smugglers. Facing trial and years in prison, he jumped bail, changed his name, holed up in a remote Australian outpost and began his second life as an environmental hero.

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.

“It seemed like everyone gets raped and assaulted and no one does anything about it; it’s like a big rape cult.”

“If we’re sitting here bored, getting high and we got guns around, it ain’t nothing else to do.”

On a parent’s relationship with unused embryos.

Meet Ben Discoe, a programmer who did it from October 2011 to November 2012.

She was an overnight YouTube success. Then she tried to make a TV show.

An interview with Jimmy Page on nostalgia, Robert Plant, and why he would only publish an autobiography after he dies.