The Aziz Ansari controversy was just the beginning of the trouble for the website.

Haley downloaded the app for fun. Now millions of people watch her videos.

For eight hours last fall, Paradise, Calif., became a zone at the limits of the American imagination — and a preview of the American future.

For hundreds of years, there were rumors of a shipwrecked treasure on the Oregon coast. But no one found anything, until Cameron La Follette began digging.

National economies collapse; species go extinct; political movements rise and fizzle. But—somehow, for some reason—Weird Al keeps rocking.

The Asian-American literary pioneer, whose writing has paved the way for many immigrants’ stories, has one last big idea.

For the first time, data scientists have modeled how climate refugees might move across international borders. This is what they found.

In the pandemic, “caremongering” has become a new term for an old—and joyous—practice

A teenage clerk dialed 911. How should the brothers who own CUP Foods pay for what happened next?

The boutique fitness phenomenon sold exclusivity with a smile, until a toxic atmosphere and a push for growth brought the whole thing down.

He covered car accidents for a years as a journalist. Then he was in two himself.

Korean adoptees felt isolated and alone for decades. Then Facebook brought them together.

The pandemic offered an unprecedented opportunity for the researchers who study why and how we dream.

“I never thought about ending my pregnancy. Instead, at 19, I erased the future I had imagined for myself.”

A profile of Michelle Lyons, who viewed 278 executions as both a local reporter and a spokesperson for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

Steven Cohen, troubled founder a $14 billion hedge fund, has an eye for modern art.

Searching for answers 40 years after a Brooklyn man threw acid in the face of his 4-year-old neighbor.

On Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet, its uncanny knack for reflecting changes in Russian politics and culture, and the recent acid attack on its artistic director.

The dangerous work of harvesting your food.

A 27-year old reporter is kidnapped in Somalia and held hostage for over a year.

Why a former Anonymous spokesperson was arrested for, among other things, copying and pasting a link.

What the rapidly changing world of teenage hook-up culture means for young women.

He outsold Elvis, signed one of the first pay-for-play contracts and befriended Martin Luther King Jr. A profile of Harry Belafonte.

A basketball player, broke and without a Plan B, travels across the country for one last shot at glory.