How a teenage gamer in the hottest new esport, Overwatch, became a reluctant icon for South Korea’s feminist movement.

How Shane Battier could score zero points in an NBA game and still be the most important player on the floor.

The dramatic imbalance in pay and power has created the conditions for abuse.

How the GOP took control of state politics in Alabama, leaving black lawmakers—and their constituents—powerless.

An indecent proposal, a crime of passion, and legends of murder in an enclave of bohemian retirees.

They’ve built a hidden society in a state park. Among the haole squatters of Kalalau.

The teenager told police all about his gang, MS-13. In return, he was slated for deportation and marked for death.

Every month, thousands of deportees from the United States and hundreds of asylum-seekers from around the world arrive in Tijuana. Many never leave.

A statewide network of schools for disabled students has trapped black children in neglect and isolation.

Priests are fielding more requests than ever for help with demonic possession, and a centuries-old practice is finding new footing in the modern world.

How a cat litter scientist from Iowa ended up in an NBA star’s inner circle.

On conservative radio host John Ziegler and “the strange media landscape in which political talk radio is a salient.”

The untold story of Alek Minassian, a year after the deadliest mass murder in Toronto history

More than 250 people have died since 2011 taking pictures of themselves in dangerous locations.

What do you do when you hear that Mike Tyson is opening a weed resort in the middle of the California desert? You go investigate.

For nearly a century, an oak in a German forest has helped lonely people find love—including the mailman who delivers its letters.

What one writer learned about power, real and imagined, from Trump’s “senior adviser” and son-in-law.

How a hacker shamed and humiliated high school girls in a small New Hampshire town, and how they helped take him down.

One year ago the journalist Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and never walked out. This is what happened.

The first magazine profile of the actor in more than 20 years.

In January 2000, American Pyscho bombed at Sundance. It was just the beginning.

Tina Fey, Mike Schur, and 35 more TV writers on what their characters would do in a pandemic.

In an Arkansas jail with one of the America’s largest coronavirus outbreaks, prison terms become death sentences.

In 1989, USC had a depth chart of a dozen linebackers. Five have died, each before age 50.

At a laboratory in Manhattan, researchers have discovered how SARS-CoV-2 uses our defenses against us.