A profile of philosopher Timothy Morton, who wants humanity to give up some of its core beliefs.

A local environmental activist fights to prepare her community for life beyond mining.

Taking a stand for public land turns out to be very good for sales.

Inside the campaign to canonize the fire department chaplain who died on September 11.

Charles D. King tries to change the entertainment landscape.

How Andrew Anglin went from being an antiracist vegan to the alt-right’s most vicious troll.

CO2 could soon reach levels that, it’s widely agreed, will lead to catastrophe.

How the federal government abused its power to seize property for a border fence.

What happened after two Wisconsin girls made headlines for attempting to kill their friend in the internet character’s name.

More than a year ago, Nevada death row prisoner Scott Dozier gave up his legal appeals and asked to be executed. He’s still waiting.

What we know (and don’t), more than a year after American diplomats began to suffer strange, concussion-like symptoms in Cuba.

He holds incredible power over women’s rights. New evidence shows he lied repeatedly about his history of harassment to get there.

The wondrous—and occasionally weird—relationship between the children’s-music superstar, his fans, and the man he used to be.

A walkout mostly failed to secure more funding for schools, but it has spawned a movement of politically engaged Okies.

Did the NBA executive use social media to secretly disparage his players and defend his decisions?

Three days in Wyoming as the hip-hop firebrand tends to his scars.

She secretly recorded her brother, Holland’s most notorious criminal, confessing to multiple murders. Will he exact revenge?

On the difficulty of diagnosing chronic lyme disease and the persistent struggle to do no harm.

Inside a sleazy FBI sting involving diet clinics, fitness models, money laundering, and a supposed plot to hire a hitman.

Inside Iraq’s most notorious prison, an Army interrogator named Joshua Casteel came fact to face with a truth about the war—and himself.

Children film themselves chewing, whispering and tapping to give their adult audience an ASMR buzz. But at what cost?

Nannies and housecleaners have some of the hardest, least secure jobs in the nation. Now they’re organizing to change that.

The World Wide Fund for Nature funds vicious paramilitary forces to fight poaching.

Debra Koosed was diagnosed with dementia at 65. That’s when she decided she no longer wanted to live.

John Franzese Jr. helped send his father, notorious Colombo family mobster Sonny Franzese, to prison. Then he turned up in Indianapolis.