How young actors are navigating the new world of opportunities on our ever-shrinking screens.

Alex Vardakostas has been on a decade-long quest to build a robot that can prepare the perfect cheeseburger. It could also put his family out of work.

On Wall Street, being Black often means being alone, held back, deprived of the best opportunities.

Thomas Quick confessed to more than 30 murders. But the man also known as Sture Bergwall may not have committed any of them.

The Green Bay Packers are a historical, cultural, and geographical anomaly, a publicly traded corporation in a league that doesn’t allow them, an immensely profitable company whose shareholders are forbidden by the corporate bylaws to receive a penny of that profit, a franchise that has flourished despite being in the smallest market in the NFL—with a population of 102,000, it would be small for a Triple A baseball franchise.

A profile of Dr. Oz.

A profile of 101-year-old marathoner Fauja Singh.

America’s devastating treatment of schizophrenia.

A profile of Toni Morrison.

A profile of André Leon Talley.

How greed is sucking Texas dry.

How did it come to this? A virus a thousand times smaller than a dust mote has humbled and humiliated the planet’s most powerful nation. America has failed to protect its people, leaving them with illness and financial ruin. It has lost its status as a global leader. It has careened between inaction and ineptitude. The breadth and magnitude of its errors are difficult, in the moment, to truly fathom.”

A profile of Tiny Lister, the silver screen’s half-blind villain.

The paper reports on a battle of its own.

The story of a device that delivers electric shocks to students at a school for special needs.

Grizzly Bear and the surprisingly crappy economics of indie rock stardom.

A two-part series on how and why Arianna Huffington lost control of The Huffington Post.

A dispatch from the Philippine capital, where “no one will be safe until many, many more have died.”

What happened when 21-year-old Taiwan Smart became the target of both police and a reality TV show.

An unlikely bipartisan alliance attempts to get Yes into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

After eight women are murdered in Louisiana, what was initially thought to be the work of a serial killer becomes something much more troubling.

A profile of Ayman al-Zawahri, the Egyptian doctor who became Bin Laden’s #2 and has now taken over Al-Qaeda.

On the combined force of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife Virginia, a Tea Party stalwart.

In a campaign supported by the Koch brothers, Republicans are working to prevent millions of Democrats from voting next year.