Haley downloaded the app for fun. Now millions of people watch her videos.

Why is Rick DeVos, the son of Betsy and the heir to the DeVos fortune, investing in a weirdly populous and highly lucrative art contest?

Richard Gere, AIDS anxiety and the search for the “Original Gerbil.”

“An Indian farmer has committed suicide every half hour since 2001.”

On the fascination, from Hollywood to Atlanta, with zombies.

Tracking down a Congolese war criminal.

How Montana became home to the highest concentration of hate groups in the nation.

A shipping container spewing radiation appears mysteriously at an Italian port, prompting a larger look at the anonymous world of international shipping.

This is the story of the night Hannah was not officially raped in Washington, D.C.

On gender-variant kids, and their parents.

At 67, the American Bandstand icon remains “one hard-working mother.”

The reclusive director comes out of his shell at 73.

A profile of a young activist in Chicago who almost committed suicide on Facebook Live.

The Venezuelan maestro of the Los Angeles Philharmonic conjures joy in difficult times.

A guide to making sense of a problem that is now too big for any one person to fully comprehend.

The disappearance of the Ghost Boat and its 243 passengers off the Libyan coast.

The first sports bra was invented in 1977. It was two jockstraps sewn together.

What happend to Serafim Todorov after the 1996 Olympic featherweight semifinals.

A roundtable on sexism in Hollywood and comedy.

“After listening to him since I was a kid and seeing him live for—gulp—nearly 40 years, I think I’m beginning to figure it out.”

More than 4 million Syrians have fled the war. 2,647 have made it to the United States.

Night raids by the “Hash Monster” and other perils facing American soldiers at a remote base in the wilderness of the Paktya Province as they attempt to turn over power to the Afghan Army.

Mysterious, man-made “natural flavor” explains why most fast food—indeed, most of the food Americans eat—tastes the way it does. An early excerpt from Fast Food Nation.

A social and financial divide is forming—between those who have student debt, and those who do not—that will have ramifications for decades to come.

A Montana rancher found two skeletons in combat—the Dueling Dinosaurs. But who do they belong to, and will the public ever see them?