At Inhotim, Bernardo Paz commissioned the Jurassic Park of contemporary art. Then the Brazilian government started investigating him.

At the height of the Cold War, America’s most secretive counterespionage effort set out to crack unbreakable ciphers.

Karl Friston’s free energy principle might be the most all-encompassing idea since Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection.

A profile of the woman who wants to declutter the world.

An interview with Richard A. Epstein of the Hoover Institution.

The passengers of the Diamond Princess came for indulgence, relaxation and bottomless buffets. Then they found themselves trapped on a ship infected with a deadly virus.

On the public-health risks of the American prison system.

Why the second Indiana Jones was so dark.

A glimpse into the overcrowded California State Prison, Los Angeles County.

When a writer’s daily routine gets out of control.

One morning, as I gobbled my doughnut and slurped my coffee, thinking to myself, "What a fantastic doughnut, what an amazing coffee," I realised that I had not just thought this but was actually saying aloud, "What a fantastic doughnut! What a totally fantastic experience!", and that this was attracting the attention of the other customers, one of whom turned to me and said, "You like the doughnuts, huh?"

Chaos and heroism during a Kentucky school shooting.

In 1976, newly appointed Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens voted to reinstate capital punishment in the United States. Thirty years later, he argued that it’s unconstitutional. Here, he explains why he changed his mind.

When a group of Black mothers in Ohio were told to wait for school integration, they started marching every day in protest. They kept going for nearly 18 months.

Through a series of interviews and historical inquiries, Errol Morris dissects Anosognosia, “a condition in which a person who suffers from a disability seems unaware of or denies the existence of his or her disability.”

In Hollywood’s new blockbuster economy, the actors who portray superheroes are as interchangeable as the costumes they wear.

The fight to grant asylum to the translators who worked—and sometimes fought—alongside U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Why do we honor dead soldiers rather than the fighters who deserted and the activists who demanded peace?

In Peru, an unsolved killing has brought the Mashco Piro into contact with the outside world.

How Shane Battier could score zero points in an NBA game and still be the most important player on the floor.

The dramatic imbalance in pay and power has created the conditions for abuse.

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