Three days in Wyoming as the hip-hop firebrand tends to his scars.

We knew everything we needed to know, and nothing stood in our way. Nothing, that is, except ourselves.

Nannies and housecleaners have some of the hardest, least secure jobs in the nation. Now they’re organizing to change that.

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

A journey to explore the rising authoritarianism in Hungary and its weirdest fringe: the people who believe they’ve descended from Attila the Hun.

On surfer girls in Maui; the story that led to the film Blue Crush.

An insider watches Kink.com prepare to leave the hundred-year-old armory it occupies in San Francisco.

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

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

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

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

In Austin and cities around the country, prices are skyrocketing, forcing regular people to act like speculators. When will it end?

On office chairs.

In the 1950s and '60s, the distinctions between rank found blunt expression in chair design, naming and price point; Knoll, for example, produced "Executive," "Advanced Management," and "Basic Operational" chairs in the late 1970s. Recall the archetypal scenes where the boss, back to the door, protected by an exaggerated, double-spine headrest, slowly swivels around to meet the eyes of his waiting subordinate, impotent in a stationary four-legger.

She was mocked for her clothes and for her hair. Tabloids published nude photos of her and covered her custody fight. The defense called her hysterical. The judge condescended to her. She lost. And then she became a punchline. Twenty years later, thanks in part to The People v. O.J. Simpson, Marcia Clark is finally being seen in full.

Using his good looks and charm to lure over young women into his VW, Bundy terrorized the Pacific Northwest and then Utah, leaving over 30 corpses in desolate forest gravesite clusters. After being caught in Colorado, he escaped twice, the second time fleeing to Florida by train and going on a murderous rampage.

On September 20, 1973, 50 million Americans watched Bobby Riggs lose to Billie Jean King in a tennis match dubbed “The Battle of the Sexes.” This spring, a man named Hal Shaw came forward with a secret he’d held for 40 years: Riggs, in debt to the mafia, had lost on purpose.

Jamie Leigh Jones’s story of gang-rape in Iraq changed the law to help victims, even though she might not have been one herself.

The hard luck stories of Trump fans in Florida, New Hampshire, and Iowa, including that of a man who legally changed his name to Donald Trump Jr.

In New York City, every 4-year-old has access to free early education—even those whose families make up the 1 percent.

An Italian town plagued by mysterious fires turns to science, the church, and the law in a search for answers.

In Argentina, where the fútbol underworld controls everything from t-shirt vending to murder, and “rowdy gangs” have turned the stadium into a battleground.

A profile of the Navy Seal who killed Osama bin Laden and came home to a life in shambles.

“Violence, being instrumental by nature, is rational to the extent that it is effective in reaching the end which must justify it.”

Vivien Thomas was paid a janitor’s wage, never went to college, and still became a legend in the field of heart surgery.