Inside Randall Emmett’s direct-to-video empire, where many Hollywood stars have found lucrative early retirement.

He planned to write a memoir, The Life of a Migrant. Its central thesis: The American Dream is a lie.

What will it take to get the world’s choral musicians back together again?

Why now is the time to rethink COVID safety protocols for children—and everyone else.

The trucker blew a stop sign and hit a bus full of teenagers. Now the families of the dead grapple with their capacity to forgive.

Meet Me @ the Altar want to be household names—and that’s not a crazy notion.

Exploited by apps. Attacked by thieves. Unprotected by cops. 65,000 strong, with only themselves to count on.

The health-care brand Hims wants to leverage young men’s anxiety over erections and hair loss into a multibillion-dollar empire.

A dispatch from Vermont, which is in the midst of what the governor calls a “full-blown heroin crisis.”

Two men, separated by more than 150 years, discover the folly of attempting Western-style capitalism in Micronesia.

A Little League season in Camden, New Jersey, where the murder rate is 17 times the national average.

Tom Cruise did not, in fact, jump up and down on Oprah’s couch.

The gangs of Brooklyn’s Brownsville, an area with the higest concentration of public housing in America.

A profile of anthropologist Nancy Scheper-Hughes, who has spent her career uncovering a hidden global market in human flesh.

In the Swiss town of Meiringen, where an obsessed group of ‘pilgrims’ painstakingly recreate the death of Sherlock Holmes.

In 1968, the author revisits remote British Columbia, which he traveled two years earlier.

Is Bryan Saunders a drug-inspired outsider genius, or just in need of intervention?

On the actors who unwittingly starred in The Innocence of Muslims.

An internet pioneer loses hope in the promise of web culture.

Searching for answers 40 years after a Brooklyn man threw acid in the face of his 4-year-old neighbor.

On Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet, its uncanny knack for reflecting changes in Russian politics and culture, and the recent acid attack on its artistic director.

A profile of the deadliest sniper in American history, who was murdered last month by a fellow soldier.

A battle against an invasive breed of ants has begun in Texas. It also might be over already.

Did Remington Chase and Stefan Martirosian “orchestrate” a contract killing in Moscow?

How a once-lauded psychiatrist became a prolific prescriber of painkillers in one of Virginia’s poorest and most isolated counties.