Life on the outside is full of unpleasant surprises for longtime inmates.

Kaskade is a 44-year-old devout Mormon father of three who has never touched a drink. He makes over $500,000 a night as an EDM performer.

After a year of tumult and scandal at Tinder, ousted founder Sean Rad is back in charge. Now can he — and his company — grow up?

Can we be convinced that healthy food is delicious? On the new science of neurogastronomy and why we eat what we eat.

There are more than 22,000 homeless children in New York, the highest number since the Great Depression. This is one of their stories.

“This is a story about how the future gets weird.”

In 1995, Ramirez allegedly raped Patricia Esparza. He was tortured and killed weeks later. Now she’s charged with his murder. Is she responsible?

Nearly every American soldier injured in Iraq or Afghanistan is treated—for a few days at least—at a single hospital in Landstuhl, Germany.

John Walker Lindh’s father on why his son is an innocent victim of the War on Terror.

An independent pawn store stumbles along in an economically depressed Pennsylvania town.

The “zone of sacrifice” that is Oxnard, California, where low-income workers are paying the price for pesticide use and chemical dumping.

An essay on its history and future during a time when “gayness, we are told, is over.”

The island of Coiba off the coast of Panama is both a nature preserve and an open-air prison.

Thoughts on an emerging brand of feminism and the ridiculousness of claiming that Tina Fey is unattractive.

The juvenile ward on Rikers Island is a world of constant violence fueled by gangs and, allegedly, encouraged and overseen by the guards.

“At first, there is only a little sound, a metallic ping, almost a click.”

The greatest stand-up of his generation is also his own worst enemy.

A boy whose skin blisters at the smallest touch is fighting for his life.

A profile of the Oklahoma City point guard, who is averaging a triple-double in his first season without Kevin Durant.

Somewhere in the desert, buried under a mountain of sand and rock, is an ancient shipwreck. Maybe.

In the era of cord-cutting and mobile viewing, ESPN is at the crossroads.

How dangerous is the media company that Steve Bannon called “the platform for the alt-right”?

How did Josh Tetrick’s vegan-mayo company become a Silicon Valley darling—and what is he really selling?

In Northern Albania, vengeance is as likely a form of restitution as anything the criminal-justice system can offer.

Culture profoundly shapes our ideas about mental illness, which is something psychologist Nev Jones knows all too well.