How the state’s “restitution program” forces poor people to work off small debts.

Eira Thomas’s company has used radical new methods to find some of the biggest uncut gems in history.

Inside the wildly ambitious effort to reimagine the classic musical for 2020.

Two well-liked Twitter employees accessed thousands of users’ private information and illegally passed it to the Saudi Royal Family, per the FBI.

Three days in the creative wilderness with Francis Farewell Starlite, the reclusive muse to Kanye West, Bon Iver and Drake.

A speech on the value of being alone with your thoughts, delivered to the plebe class at West Point.

How a group of 17 trans athletes came together last November to make history.

The first epicenter is coming back to life, but not as anyone knew it.

At 22, he single-handedly put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Then he was arrested by the FBI.

How the the rush to direct-selling platforms like OnlyFans could change the adult industry forever.

What kinds of space are we willing to live and work in now?

Filipino teachers, hired to fill historic shortages in the South and elsewhere, fight their exploitation by opportunistic recruiters.

In 1986, two lovebirds busted out of a coed prison in a hijacked helicopter. They’ve been trying to escape ever since.

It was a fraught, utterly uncharted presidential transition—four years ago, from Obama to Trump. It was a prelude for so much that followed.

Sprawling ranches. Rare animals. Rich folks with guns. Welcome to the state’s booming business of stalking wildlife from around the globe.

With dozens of felines turning up dead around London, a pair of pet detectives set out to prove it was the work of a serial killer.

Elite schools breed entitlement, entrench inequality—and then pretend to be engines of social change.

How phone phreakers, many of them blind, opened up Ma Bell to unlimited free international calling using a technical manual and a toy organ.

As mass detentions and surveillance dominate the lives of China’s Uyghurs and Kazakhs, a woman struggles to free herself.

On the brink of nuclear war, America’s bold response to the Soviet Union depended on an unknown spy agency operative.

A group of high school students try desperately to make it through an isolated and dire year.

More than a decade ago, a prominent academic was exposed for having faked her Cherokee ancestry. Why has her career continued to thrive?

As a diagnosis, it’s too vague to be helpful—but its rise tells us a lot about the way we work.

In the north Bronx, a small group of elite Ethiopian runners struggle to survive. The persecution they fled was far more harrowing.

Climate change is bringing tourism and tension to Longyearbyen on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard.