A profile of a “49-year-old man whose father has just yelled at him,” Frank Sinatra Jr., a son living under the longest shadow.

In three decades of advocating for prison abolition, the activist and scholar has helped transform how people think about criminal justice.

For years sheriffs, mental health advocates, families and prosecutors have sounded the alarm about the number of people with mental illness arrested and locked up, many for minor crimes.

“The palace doors flew open. It was him. It was Rick Owens, the American-born designer known to his fans as the Lord of Darkness.”

Maine adopted Kenyan runner Moninda Marube as a symbol of human trafficking’s invisible casualties. But a close look at his case raises hard questions — and illustrates the challenge of investigating and prosecuting trafficking crimes.

Police departments have become more attentive to officers’ use of excessive force on the job, but that concern rarely extends to the home.

On Luddites, “bands of men, organized, masked, anonymous, whose object was to destroy machinery used mostly in the textile industry,” and their literary spawn.

A rash of building fires in San Francisco has many speculating that the fault lies with landlords hoping to oust their poor tenants. One anonymous landlord describes his failed plan to do exactly that.

Shut out of the employment market in their 20s, hikkomori shut-ins continue to search for direction in middle age.

On the Texas-sized trash island floating in the Pacific.

Horowitz went from the New Left to the far right. Now neither side wants him.

“The White House still maintains that the mission was an all-American affair, and that the senior generals of Pakistan’s army and Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) were not told of the raid in advance. This is false, as are many other elements of the Obama administration’s account.”

Inside the Cleveland Indians clubhouse during their 22 game win streak.

How a 15-month-old was found dead in the sea in Norway.

A profile of a promising young runner.

A profile of Ernie Adams, Bill Belichick’s mysterious right hand man.

A story of literary ambition, fabulous parties and a hidden past.

A dispatch from the Central African Republic.

Daniel Mallory Ortberg on coming out as trans.

Inside Alden Global Capital.

The implosion of the daily fantasy industry is a bro-classic tale of hubris, recklessness, political naïveté and a kill-or-be-killed culture.

An essay on Beyoncé and her fans.

Airbnb vs. New York City.

I don’t think there’s anything that I’m not afraid of, on some level. But if you mean, What are we afraid of, as humans? Chaos. The outsider. We’re afraid of change. We’re afraid of disruption, and that is what I’m interested in.”

For decades, the artist’s Saturday Evening Post covers championed a retrograde view of America. This is the story of the politically turbulent 1960s, a singular painting, and Rockwell’s unlikely change of heart.