When (temporary) cities swell; a short history of the Burning Man festival.

He used to weigh 1,000 pounds. Now he has to figure out what to do with the rest of his life.

The story of Lisa S. Davis and Lisa S. Davis.

From 2009 to 2014, police in Florida shot 827 people. Many of these incidents were avoidable and unnecessary.

A brutal custody battle raises questions about who has a right to rear a child and what the legal meaning of a family should be.

Her creepy, surreal YouTube videos have millions of views, but no one knows Poppy’s full story.

DNA evidence exonerated six convicted killers. So why do some of them recall the crime so clearly?

He hacked a hospital to protest their treatment of a sick child. Now he’s facing 15 years.

A profile of Seth Moulton, the junior congressman from Massachusetts.

A profile of the Fox News anchor, who started his media career as a promising magazine writer.

The legendary stuntman launches a new phase of his expansive career.

No one knows quite what to do with these coerced masks made from the faces of Native American POWS.

The town welcomed hundreds of Somali refugees. Then a private militia decided to go “ISIS hunting.”

Life as a New York Times reporter in the shadow of the war on terror.

“Watching the cells populate, it rapidly became clear that many of us had weathered more than we had been willing to admit to one another.”

Thirty years ago, a series of documentaries introduced the world to an isolated tribe in Papua New Guinea. What happened when the cameras left?

“You’ve got your whole life in front of you. You’re pretty, you’ve got this house — well, you don’t have this house anymore. This house is my house.”

After the explosion of the Columbia shuttle in 2003, two American astronauts aboard the International Space Station suddenly found themselves with no ride home.

Beatrice White, the Toronto girl who won the city’s turn-of-the-century fly-swatting contest.

Eric Schneiderman faces a #MeToo reckoning of his own.

How Texas’s decade-long border security operation has turned South Texas into one of the most heavily policed and surveilled places in the nation.

“I’ve got these boxes of ideas and I’m starting to go through them to see if there’s any gold. “

An oral history of the women who transformed Rolling Stone in the mid-70s.