When her brother embraced Orthodox Judaism, the author began to question her own reality and went to Israel to find some answers.

After Julie “Mama Julz” Richards’s own family was nearly destroyed by addiction, fighting back against meth became a personal crusade.

Many people dream of building their own home in the country, but one family finds more of a struggle than they bargained for.

A trip to Kingston, Jamaica to track down Bunny Wailer, a reggae legend now living “in his own private Zion.”

It's a glorious thing, hearing Eddie Murphy say "fuck" again. Few people ever said it better – and down here in the basement of the stone-and-marble mansion he built on a Beverly Hills cliff, it's coming from his lips often enough to make Shrek blush. "Come on, motherfucker," Murphy shouts, over the throb of James Brown's "Hot Pants" on a formidable sound system.

“We’re trying really hard to make things better,” said one former Apple executive. “But most people would still be really disturbed if they saw where their iPhone comes from.”

Previously: “Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class”

A political history of Britain.

“My career is not my life. It’s a hobby.”

My husband’s struggle with postpartum depression was my struggle, too.

The paper reports on a battle of its own.

Andre Thomas cut out his children’s hearts and removed his own eyes. Texas considers him sane.

Violence convulses the city of Chicago after dark. Reporting on it leaves its own scars.

Designing your own narcotics online isn’t just easy—it can be legal, too.

How an alcoholic doctor simultaneously saved his own life and made what could be the medical breakthrough of the century.

In the midst of a national crisis, mothers addicted to drugs struggle to get off them — for their babies’ sake, and their own.

The story of an aviator-adventurer draws a journalist into a reflection on his own family’s history of flight.

What’s a typical immigrant story? In his new film, “Minari,” the “Walking Dead” star has his own to tell.

"I remember lying on my side, dust everywhere, and I looked down and saw my arms were split open and squirting blood and I had just two bloody stumps above my knees," said Marine 1st Lt. James Byler, 26, who was blown up a few weeks before Mark Litynski. "My first coherent words to my Marines were, 'Hey! check my nuts!'

Before he died, Sun Myung Moon, cult father to massive Unification Church (known better as the Moonies), sent 14 Japanese “national messiahs” deep into the Paraguayan jungle to build an utopian “ideal city.” Thirteen years later, the author catches a trading boat down river in search of their hidden town.

Tereza Sedgwick trains to become a nurse aid, the fastest-growing job in America. It pays just better than minimum wage and has one of the highest burnout rates of any career.

“The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response. The playwright, along with any writer, composer, painter in this society, has got to have a terribly private view of his own value, of his own work. He's got to listen to his own voice primarily. He's got to watch out for fads, for what might be called the critical aesthetics.”

The Harvard Law School legend has defended everyone from O.J. Simpson to Claus von Bülow. Now he’s facing his toughest case yet: his own.

The tragi-comic career of a nobody comedian from the 1940s who ditched his wife, child, and eventually his own name.

Once their careers end, pro wrestlers often fall into emotional and physical disrepair. One of their own, Diamond Dallas Page, has a fix.

Winona Ryder has always been trapped in her own anticipatory nostalgia, and the public has always wanted to keep her there.