Violence convulses the city of Chicago after dark. Reporting on it leaves its own scars.

A small organic agave farmer stands firm against the collision of Big Agriculture and tequila.

An account of the 60 minutes after a heavyweight fight at Madison Square Garden that left one boxer with permanent brain damage.

The mutual hatred of Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley, Jr., punctuated by great insults like “crypto-Nazi.”

A treatment for liver cancer gives the writer a fresh perspective on illness – and wellness.

Behind the scenes of a viral mash-up.

On the anger that led to the Watts Riots of 1965, the mistakes made during those six days in August, and how little changed afterward.

A profile of the “Oldboy” and “The Handmaiden” director.

Over the course of 25 years, he’s repeatedly toyed with the idea of running for president and now, maybe, governor of New York. With all but his closest apostles finally tired of the charade, even the Donald himself has to ask, what’s the point? On the plane and by the pool with the man who will not be king.

The full text of a 20,000-word ebook on the interpreters who worked alongside American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, and their fates once they were no longer of service.

How the magazine industry’s identity crisis is playing out on its front page.

The director of a covert organization arrives for his first day at work.

The story of a school shooting in Townville, S.C. and what happened to the first-graders who saw it all happen.

On the cusp of delivery, a mother-to-be recounts the anxiety-laden path to parenthood.

Glory isn’t part of the deal when you go to work for the federal government.

The U.S. is one of only two countries that don’t guarantee paid maternity leave. As a result, women across the country are rushing back to work after C-sections and losing their positions in order to take care of newborns.

“This is the story of the past three years of my life. It’s romance in a way, but it’s also a breakup story.”

A profile of the Aurora shooter.

Shulamith Firestone, one of the first radical feminists, helped to create a new society. But she couldn’t live in it.

The quiet life of Brigette Höss, 80, whose father ran Auschwitz.

The case of a teenager who didn’t kill his classmates—but talked about it.

Steven Donziger, an American lawyer, headed up a successful lawsuit against Chevron on behalf of Ecuadorans. Then the legal tables turned on him.

The challenge of finding answers about some abandoned cremains.