A lawsuit against Harvard forces students to choose sides.

On surfer girls in Maui; the story that led to the film Blue Crush.

Texans receiver DeAndre Hopkins says he owes his career to his mom. When you hear her remarkable story of survival, you’ll understand his devotion.

Thomas Joshua Cooper risks his life to document the world’s remotest places.

Caveh Zahedi’s abject, self-defeating, ethically questionable, maddeningly original approach to documentary.

An insider watches Kink.com prepare to leave the hundred-year-old armory it occupies in San Francisco.

History’s largest mining operation is about to begin. It’s underwater—and the consequences are unimaginable.

A new genetic engineering technology could help eliminate malaria and stave off extinctions — if humanity decides to unleash it.

How the state’s “restitution program” forces poor people to work off small debts.

Eira Thomas’s company has used radical new methods to find some of the biggest uncut gems in history.

Two well-liked Twitter employees accessed thousands of users’ private information and illegally passed it to the Saudi Royal Family, per the FBI.

Three days in the creative wilderness with Francis Farewell Starlite, the reclusive muse to Kanye West, Bon Iver and Drake.

A speech on the value of being alone with your thoughts, delivered to the plebe class at West Point.

How a group of 17 trans athletes came together last November to make history.

The first epicenter is coming back to life, but not as anyone knew it.

At 22, he single-handedly put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Then he was arrested by the FBI.

How the the rush to direct-selling platforms like OnlyFans could change the adult industry forever.

What kinds of space are we willing to live and work in now?

Filipino teachers, hired to fill historic shortages in the South and elsewhere, fight their exploitation by opportunistic recruiters.

In 1986, two lovebirds busted out of a coed prison in a hijacked helicopter. They’ve been trying to escape ever since.

Sprawling ranches. Rare animals. Rich folks with guns. Welcome to the state’s booming business of stalking wildlife from around the globe.

With dozens of felines turning up dead around London, a pair of pet detectives set out to prove it was the work of a serial killer.

Elite schools breed entitlement, entrench inequality—and then pretend to be engines of social change.

How phone phreakers, many of them blind, opened up Ma Bell to unlimited free international calling using a technical manual and a toy organ.

As mass detentions and surveillance dominate the lives of China’s Uyghurs and Kazakhs, a woman struggles to free herself.