A profile of Mike Judge, creator of the now-resuscitated Beavis and Butthead.

On the 1934 lynching of Claude Neal, and the Florida town that kept the identity of those responsible a secret.

The low-key swingers of sleepy Amarillo, Texas find themselves relentlessly harassed by a militant Christian group.

“The Anonymous mystique had allowed a group of incompetents to hijack, then discredit, an important grassroots movement in the eyes of national media.”

A report from the Central African Republic, where "acts of extraordinary cruelty have become commonplace."

A longtime NGO worker on how big ideas end up hurting international aid.

Newly sober, a man considers faith in its various forms.

A professor of sociology at Columbia reckons with her father’s relationship with Adolf Eichmann.

A group of journalists and researchers wade into ugly corners of the Internet to expose racists, creeps, and hypocrites. Have they gone too far?

A conversation with Björk about Vulnicura, her new—and confessional—album about her recent break-up with Matthew Barney.

Once a “folk hero,” Carson has become controversial. And his social conservative stances puzzle his former colleagues.

For decades a group of radical Catholics, many of them nuns, have been keeping up the good fight against nuclear weapons.

The controversial owner of the Dallas World Aquarium once nearly caused a riot over pygmy sloths.

A drag pageant pioneer dropped out of the public eye after the 1960s. What happened to her?

Researchers do look into near-death experiences, seeking a verified case of what they call “apparently non-physical veridical perception.”

The sugar beet harvest in North Dakota draws a modern version of the American hobo.

Meet a man who could be called the “Hillaryland Whisperer.”

In 1992, a magazine story introduced the world to the photographs of Sally Mann. Here, she responds to the firestorm that article produced.

The author visits City of Refuge in Pahokee, Florida, a community of more than 100 registered sex offenders.

Football-related brain damage made Rickie Harris fall from the heights of the NFL to serving a DUI sentence in his ex-wife’s basement.

On being among giant reptiles with a parent you don’t understand.

The ramifications of a U.S. company’s tourism operation on former Maasai land.

A controversial effort divides students by race in order to combat racism.

A support group for trans veterans meets in New Orleans, linked to the only VA that is known to treat them with respect.

Alberto Salazar is one of the most celebrated running coaches in the world. Is he also a cheater?