An estimated 70,000 transgender youth lack secure housing. This is what life on the streets is like for six of them.

“It was a tiny incident in itself, but it gave me a better glimpse than I had had before of the real nature of imperialism–the real motives for which despotic governments act.” Memories of a British soldier in Burma.

The DVD is still king in Lagos’ Alaba International Market for Electronics.

Excerpted from Nollywood: The Making of a Film Empire.

A review of several books on Rupert Murdoch first criticizes the authors for not grasping the many sides of their subject, then offers a thesis of its own. He’s “not so much a man, or a cultural force, as a portrait of the modern world.”

“Most of us should be in jail for the things we do. We just haven’t been caught. No one’s gone after us.”

At a South Korean laboratory, a once-disgraced doctor is replicating hundreds of deceased pets for the rich and famous.

Skinny, sober, happily married, and seemingly full of radiant light, Gucci's become an improbably inspiring public figure, a beacon of serenity and gratitude for positivity-starved times.

It didn't matter if these clubs were in Cleveland, Portland, Corpus Christi or Baton Rouge—if it was a nightclub, the owners were the Mob. For a good forty years the Mob controlled American show business.

A 1993 profile of Ricky Jay, world-class sleight-of-hand conjurer who rarely performs (and never for children), historian of unusual entertainments and confidence scams, bibliomaniac.

Hitman-for-hire darknet sites are all scams. But some people turn up dead nonetheless.

Tekashi 6ix9ine was SoundCloud rap’s most notorious star. But the same instincts that made him huge may put him in prison for years

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

The city of New York is suing a Long Island woman for making NYPD T-shirts. But is it really about money or controlling the brand?

For the past two decades, a suicide epidemic fueled by guns, poverty and isolation has swept across the West, with middle-aged men dying in record numbers.

Hundreds of thousands of single-family homes are now in the hands of giant companies—squeezing renters for revenue and putting the American dream even further out of reach.

Lee Holloway programmed internet security firm Cloudflare into being. But then he became apathetic, distant, and unpredictable—for a long time, no one could make sense of it.

Black women have been telling the truth about America for a long time. As a Black woman in journalism, my obligation is no less than that.

Outdated textbooks, not enough teachers, no ventilation — for millions of kids like Harvey Ellington, the public-education system has failed them their whole lives.

How the heir to the Hart wrestling dynasty burned every bridge from Canada to Mexico.

On the dangerous glut of visitors looking to conquer Mt. Everest, where there is sometimes a two-hour wait to climb the Hillary Step.

A 30-year-old funeral director in LA wants to help the living get closer to death.

The theme-park chain where kids learn to pilot a plane, pay taxes, and pretend to be adults.

Mel and Norma Gabler of Longview, Texas, want to tell your children what to learn in school.

A white gangster immerses himself in Asian culture to lead a Chinatown gang. He even learns to pour tea correctly.

In 1992, a magazine story introduced the world to the photographs of Sally Mann. Here, she responds to the firestorm that article produced.