A former WikiLeaks employee on the motivations driving his old boss.

Susan Hawk was the first woman elected as Dallas County district attorney. She also suffers from depression.

Why The Undefeated, a site announced more than two years ago, still hasn’t launched.

An attempt to figure out how the Times columnist came to care more about personal morality than politics.

The Penn State sex abuse scandal as told through a father, a son and “Victim 1.”

On what you come to appreciate after a short apprenticeship with paramedics.

“Who we become has so much to do with the experiences we had, and how we survived.”

Young immigrants who have been separated from their parents find a home at the Children’s Center.

How social media stars like Addison Rae gave the cosmetics industry a makeover.

Inside Randall Emmett’s direct-to-video empire, where many Hollywood stars have found lucrative early retirement.

Exploited by apps. Attacked by thieves. Unprotected by cops. 65,000 strong, with only themselves to count on.

People with Prader-Willi syndrome, caused by a genetic defect, always feel as though they’re starving. How can you condition them to control their appetites when temptation is everywhere?

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.

To date, more than 500 people have been killed by police in America. This is the story of one, Charly Keunang.

Three decades ago, Mohamed Siad Barre, commander of the Supreme Revolutionary Council, head of the politburo of the Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party and the last ruler of a functional Somali state, built vast concrete buildings all over Mogadishu. The beautiful city on the coast of the Indian Ocean, with its Arabic and Indian architecture, winding alleyways and Italian colonial-era villas, was dominated by these monuments. They were Third World incarnations of Soviet architecture, exuding power, stability and strength. The buildings – like the literacy campaigns, massive public works programmes and a long war against neighbouring Ethiopia in the late 1970s and early 1980s – were supposed to reflect the wisdom and authority of the dictator.

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.”

An interview with Steve Albini on art, commerce, and ethic.

On the battle over solar farms in the Mojave desert. An excerpt from Madrigal’s new book, Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology.

Eleven members of an Australian rugby club traveled to Bali. After a bomb went off at a nightclub, only five of them made it home.

After years of outsourcing, many essential staff work for the NHS without receiving its benefits. In one London hospital, the fight is on for a better deal.

On the eve of the Civil War, a nightmare at sea turned into one of the greatest rescues in maritime history. More than a century later, a rookie treasure hunter went looking for the lost ship—and found a different kind of ruin.

On writing what you loathe. Leslie McFarlane, ghostwriter of the early Hardy Boys novels, was so ashamed of the work he couldn’t even bring himself to name the books in his diary. “June 9, 1933: Tried to get at the juvenile again today but the ghastly job appalls me.”

How volunteer firefighters responded to a lethal West, Texas explosion.