The DEA warns that drugs are funding terror. But is the agency stopping threats or staging them?

Nowadays, the young and privileged view un- and under-paid assistantships as the road to a successful creative career. Are they deluding themselves?

The families who are choosing to live in the exclusion zone’s ghost villages and nearby.

History’s largest mining operation is about to begin. It’s underwater—and the consequences are unimaginable.

“You are reading this because you have no idea what NASA is doing. And NASA, tongue-tied by jargon, can’t figure out how to tell you. But the agency is engaged in work that can be more enduring and far-reaching than anything else this country is paying for.”

The author, age 96, on the end.

Around the world, governments and corporations are in a race for code that can protect, spy, and destroy—hacks some secretive startups are more than happy to sell.

Adventures with a group of young Hasidic men looking for God in psychedelic drugs.

The whole thing began over a puddle in the driveway. Eight years later, Peter Nygard and his neighbor Louis Bacon, who own houses next to each other in paradise, have spent tens of millions in a constantly escalating legal war. Neither man spends much time on the island anymore.

John Aldridge fell overboard in the middle of the night, 40 miles from shore, and the Coast Guard was looking in the wrong place. How did he survive?

Last year, a 26-year-old American missionary set out to convert the world’s most isolated hunter-gatherer tribe. This is the untold story of John Chau’s mission and the tragedy that awaited him.

On the grief that comes with losing livestock.

'It’s raised the bar,' Craig finally conceded. 'It’s fucking raised the bar.'

Jane de Oliveira set out to protect the world’s largest rain forest from the corporate interests that are burning it to the ground. Then the armed men showed up.

The story behind an online gamer’s suicide.

How one obscure sentence upset the New York Times.

Investigating the spike in Afghan-on-American military murders.

Why Obama won’t rein in the NSA.

Gentrification and its discontents in Paris, throughout the centuries.

On Colonel Muammar Qaddafi, “the permanent revolutionary,” and his son Seif.

On the relationship between rivalry and creativity.

Why don’t police catch serial rapists?

Profiling the sleepy reality tv star.

On the lawyers who defend Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Jared Loughner and Whitey Bulger.