An interview with “one of the most influential data gurus” in electoral politics.

In Gujarat, India, a special breed of camel is not constrained by land—but cannot escape the many forces of change.

The Badger State is designed to keep Republicans in power, at the expense of the minority vote.

Henry Orenstein survived three years in concentration camps before creating Transformers and poker cameras.

How a 16-year-old from suburban Connecticut became the most famous teen in America.

In her pandemic summer, a college student retreated to a cabin on an island, and a job on a lobster boat.

In St. Louis, a former rival could end up springing Felix Key from a 28 year sentence.

The post–civil war boom in shark fishing that saved Congolese fishermen and their families is now drying up.

For the past 70 years, the Circle L 5 Riding Club in Fort Worth has been honoring the legacy of its forefathers.

How billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Warren Buffett pay so little in income tax compared to their massive wealth—sometimes, even nothing.

How much can athletes really make in niche sports? A whole lot more than you might think.

After he killed two people in Kenosha, opportunists turned his case into a polarizing spectacle.

In 2015, Tom Turcich set out to circumnavigate the globe by foot. He has been walking ever since.

A celebrated Uyghur writer gives a first-person account of the genocide in Xinjiang.

In the countryside, the endless killing of civilians turned women against the occupiers who claimed to be helping them.

Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was once a regular Miami kid. Now he’s in a DC jail.

In the West, organized extremists are driving community health officials out of their jobs.

When Randy Lanier sped to Rookie of the Year honors at the 1986 Indianapolis 500, few knew his racing credentials, let alone his status as one of the nation’s most prolific drug runners, smuggling in tons of marijuana when he wasn’t on the track. Now, after 27 years in prison, Lanier is looking to the road ahead.

When Chicago’s Stevens Hotel opened in 1927, it was the biggest hotel in the world. By the time it was closed, it had bankrupted and caused the suicide of a member of the Stevens’ family (which included a seven-year-old future Justice John Paul Stevens), and changed the city forever.

Timothy Brown was diagnosed with HIV in the ’90s. In 2006, he found that a new, unrelated disease threatened his life: leukemia. After chemo failed, doctors resorted to a bone marrow transplant. That transplant erased any trace of HIV from his body, and may hold the secret of curing AIDS.

On George Plimpton and the founders of The Paris Review.

In America's third oldest major city, a new sport has been born. It's called rustling cars. According to auto‑theft statis­tics, Newark has the highest rate of car theft per capita in the nation, more than forty cars each day. Sixty‑five percent of the thefts are perpetrated by teens and preteens, known hereabouts as the Doughnut Boys.

In 1959, a social psychologist in Michigan brought together three institutionalized patients for an experiment:

[W]hat would happen, he wondered, if he made three men meet and live closely side by side over a period of time, each of whom believed himself to be the one and only Jesus Christ?