The icon opens up about her mistakes, her family, and her journey to become a better person.

Junior’s personal life is in shambles, Robert Mueller looms large, and it’s never been trickier to be the president’s son.

He was a far-right, pro-Trump media figure looking for his big break. Then Lane Davis stabbed his father to death.

At the height of the Cold War, America’s most secretive counterespionage effort set out to crack unbreakable ciphers.

Men have become increasingly infertile, so much so that within a generation they may lose the ability to reproduce entirely.

A professor schemed to get a raise and win his department’s respect. Instead, he wrecked his career.

Bringing a serial killer to justice reveals the country’s other sources of death and suffering.

How an economic war has pushed millions to the brink of starvation.

Two decades after his last deadly act of ecoterrorism, the Unabomber has become an unlikely prophet to a new generation of acolytes.

Tracing an airstrike halfway around the world back to an American bomb factory.

A lifelong runner is hit with a mysterious physical breakdown and forced to begin contemplating the end.

“We are beginning to understand what ails us, and it’s not something an oxygen facial or a treadmill desk can fix.”

A profile of the woman who wants to declutter the world.

Millions of Americans have taken antidepressants for many years. What happens when it’s time to stop?

The U.S. military prison’s leadership considered Mohamedou Salahi to be its highest-value detainee. But his guard suspected otherwise.

A fight that has nothing to do with gun control is ripping through the grieving community.

When Spanish authorities sentenced this provocative musician to prison for “glorifying terrorism,” his dedicated fans helped him make a daring escape across the border.

Daniel Spence used dating apps to scam his way across the U.S. Could he be caught before taking over one of Brooklyn’s hottest media companies?

Is the genetically engineered chestnut tree an act of ecological restoration or a threat to wild forests?

A Texas con artist made millions promising prisoners’ families the thing they wanted most: to bring their children home.

Power worship blurs political judgement because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible. If the Japanese have conquered south Asia, then they will keep south Asia for ever, if the Germans have captured Tobruk, they will infallibly capture Cairo; if the Russians are in Berlin, it will not be long before they are in London: and so on. This habit of mind leads also to the belief that things will happen more quickly, completely, and catastrophically than they ever do in practice. The rise and fall of empires, the disappearance of cultures and religions, are expected to happen with earthquake suddenness, and processes which have barely started are talked about as though they were already at an end.

They’re supposed to safeguard pretrial detainees. But America’s oldest law enforcement agency is suffering from a massive dereliction of duty.

When a brain injury leads to a personality change and then prison time, a neuroscientist wonders if his brother could have been saved.

Can a December marathon in Northern Maine, organized by an eccentric long-distance runner, make a difference to a former mill town?

Gun violence, high school football and what coaches are doing to keep their players safe