Fentanyl is quickly becoming America’s deadliest drug. But law enforcement couldn’t trace it to its source—until one teenager overdosed in North Dakota.

Christina Kim risked everything to escape North Korea’s entrenched gender violence. She almost didn’t make it.

“None of this should have ever happened. It makes absolutely no sense at all. It’s truly crazy.”

On boot camps designed to break kids of their web addiction.

Solving the mystery of Wilbur Ross’ missing fortune.

An investigation into the killing of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.

What happened to the women in the Robert Kraft massage parlor case? And why did the case collapse?

We stopped at a service station where there were old truck drivers, their vehicles festooned with red banners: “All-out war against the virus, weather hard times together.” The drivers wore their masks down around their chins as they smoked. I asked for water at the only open shop, and the assistant pulled his jacket up to cover his mouth before saying “over there.”

Young people who leave strict Jewish communities face a bewildering, lonely new world. One group helps them navigate it.

On “If You Are the One”, the smash hit Chinese dating show that raised the ire of censors.

Superstar coders, like actors and athletes, now have agents.

“I am having a moment, but I only want more. I need more. I cannot merely be good enough because I am chased by the pernicious whispers that I might only be ‘good enough for a black woman.’”

“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”

Inside China’s vast new experiment in social ranking.

How a touring dance company battles the Chinese Communist Party.

JD.com is expanding its consumer base with drone delivery and local recruits who can exploit villages’ tight-knit social networks to drum up business.

In just the past few years, one union has organized close to 10,000 Florida adjuncts, in what is one of the most remarkable and little-noticed large scale labor campaigns in the country.

The attack by Chinese spies reached almost 30 U.S. companies, including Amazon and Apple, by compromising America’s technology supply chain.

Climate change is giving rise to intermating between previously distinct species. Welcome to a world with “grolar bears.”

On Hillary Clinton’s policy team.

The ethical burdens of the ICU during Covid.

Ardelia Ali was raped in 1995. Twenty years later, her attacker was convicted.

The fabled venue where the Replacements, Hüsker Dü, and Prince emerged.