How virtual worlds like Ultima Online form economies and the sellers who make a living in digital goods.

How the Weinstein Brothers barked their way into an empire and then lost it.

Fifty years ago, rodeo man Bob Gimlin was a Bigfoot skeptic. Then he and a friend caught the creature on tape.

“In my view, Trump wouldn’t be president if not for Bob.”

A conversation with 97-year-old Ben Ferencz.

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

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.

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

Dick Cavett, the “last great intellectual talk-show host,” at 81.

How a Sacramento Kings executive stole more than $13 million from the team—and almost got away with it.

An interview with Alan Stillman, who in 1965 founded T.G.I. Friday’s, the first singles bar in America.

It was a fraught, utterly uncharted presidential transition—four years ago, from Obama to Trump. It was a prelude for so much that followed.

Will artificial intelligence bring utopia or destruction?

A baby’s brain needs love to develop.

Why do people with dementia become lost?

Six women tell their stories.

How one Texas boxing match changed history.

Afternoons with Altman and Allen.

For a year or two during the mid-1970s, living in New York, I was a moviegoer. I was in my early 20s then, working off and on, driving a cab, setting up the stage at rock shows, writing occasional pieces for The Village Voice. But there were also long empty spells. I tried to write some fiction and couldn’t, tried to read and could—but only for so long. I ended up going to the movies.

Growing up with Charlie Brown.

What it’s like to be struck by lightning.

An essay on Derek Jeter.