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For nearly a century, an oak in a German forest has helped lonely people find love—including the mailman who delivers its letters.

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

What one writer learned about power, real and imagined, from Trump’s “senior adviser” and son-in-law.

How a hacker shamed and humiliated high school girls in a small New Hampshire town, and how they helped take him down.

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

One year ago the journalist Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and never walked out. This is what happened.

Politicians want to rein in the retail giant. But Jeff Bezos, the master of cutthroat capitalism, is ready to fight back.

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

The mentalist’s manipulation techniques give people too sophisticated to believe in the paranormal something quasi-scientific to hang on to.

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

The first magazine profile of the actor in more than 20 years.

In January 2000, American Pyscho bombed at Sundance. It was just the beginning.

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.

Tina Fey, Mike Schur, and 35 more TV writers on what their characters would do in a pandemic.

Renée Bach went to Uganda to save children—but many in her care died. Was she responsible?

In an Arkansas jail with one of the America’s largest coronavirus outbreaks, prison terms become death sentences.

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

America’s poet laureate of the dick joke is taking it all in stride.

In 1989, USC had a depth chart of a dozen linebackers. Five have died, each before age 50.

A mother’s fight to save a Black, mentally ill 11-year-old boy in a time of a pandemic and rising racial unrest.

At a laboratory in Manhattan, researchers have discovered how SARS-CoV-2 uses our defenses against us.

How the President could endanger the official records of one of the most consequential periods in American history.