What it’s like to be Enzyte’s “Smiling Bob,” and other tales of acting as a product’s public face.

Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian launches an ambitious campaign.

Inside the N.S.A.’s mission to spy on just about everyone.

On the post-prison lives of several men in West Baltimore.

A reporter makes it his mission to track down all 42 members of a platoon after their service in Iraq.

His book panned in the New York Times after being misread by the critic, an author responds.

The author interviews her mother about life as a secretary at Playboy in 1960s New York City.

A report from the border of ISIS territory in Iraq, where civilians are battling to survive.

Visiting Disney World during times of loss and sorrow.

Seventy years after three of the bloodiest days in U.S. history, the battle continues to bring the missing men home.

Fast food used to be a transitional, temporary work. In Creston, Iowa, it has become a career.

The mother of a child born with a deformed brain responds, heartbreakingly, to an academic study claiming that people are happier without kids.

Colombian traffickers have a new smuggling method of choice: specially designed submarines capable of carrying 10 tons of cocaine and covering 2,000 miles without refueling.

The detective work that led to the recovery of a trove of stolen Nazi art.

Dave Goodhouse can’t really make a living anymore. But he can’t get out either.

A profile of philosopher Timothy Morton, who wants humanity to give up some of its core beliefs.

Inside the big and not especially scientific business of lavender and frankincense.

He holds incredible power over women’s rights. New evidence shows he lied repeatedly about his history of harassment to get there.

The future of Tesla.

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

Many low-wage workers are confined to filthy bathrooms, can’t get breaks and even lose their jobs trying to pump.

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

As landlords and tenants go broke across the U.S., the next crisis point of the pandemic approaches.

More than 60 years after Brown v. Board of Education, New York’s schools remain separate and unequal.