A profile of Afghanistan’s outgoing president.

Tales of teenage romance.

Hundreds of thousands of single-family homes are now in the hands of giant companies—squeezing renters for revenue and putting the American dream even further out of reach.

On young love.

A portrait of Harlem.

"Opium does not deprive you of your senses. It does not make a madman of you. But drink does. See? Who ever heard of a man committing murder when full of hop. Get him full of whiskey and he might kill his father."

A journey into New York’s turn-of-the-century opium dens to find out who gets hooked and why.

Policing the world of experimental research in the age of TED talks and Freakonomics.

The fall of PCCare247, an Indian company in the business of selling fixes to problems that didn’t exist.

The story of one of the 74,000 children who come to this country each year alone and undocumented.

A hardcore night of Dungeons & Dragons with artist Zak Smith and his coterie of porn star players.

Inside the stronghold of Commander Pigeon, “collector of lost and exiled men.”

A profile of Christine Quinn, odds-on favorite to be the next mayor of New York City.

A look at the Mexican drug wars from the point of view of a narco’s mistress in Juárez.

On the history of Earth Day and the failure of the modern environmental movement.

The hunt for a secretive network of British men obsessed with accumulating and cataloguing the eggs of rare birds.

The afterlife of 486 frames of Kodachrome II 8mm film shot by Dallas clothing manufacturer Abraham Zapruder.

Our entire way of life depends upon the “cold chain,” the network of artificially refrigerated spaces that have reshaped the modern world.

Reverse engineering the details of a murder that took place in St. Louis on Christmas Night in 1895 from over a century of popular song.

The legacy of a secret Cold War program that tested chemical weapons on thousands of American soldiers.

Tales of mayhem on the set of The Canyons.

Learning of a plot against the life of the newly elected Lincoln, Alan Pinkerton decamps to Baltimore and infiltrates the conspiracy.

On the overstated effect of the Santa Ana winds on human behavior and the understated impact of climate change on LA’s seasons.

“In some ways, joining the military is an act of faith in one’s country—an act of faith that the country will use your life well.”

A profile of former Rutgers basketball coach Mike Rice, who was fired in April after a video of him berating players went viral.

The conspiracy theories surrounding the 1931 death of Hitler’s niece and object of affection.