Inside the empire of Botox.

In Northern Albania, vengeance is as likely a form of restitution as anything the criminal-justice system can offer.

How to create a floating city.

The opioid’s potency has transformed the global trafficking—and policing—of narcotics.

Seth Herter’s life was full of delusions. But the murder was all too real.

Bringing a serial killer to justice reveals the country’s other sources of death and suffering.

How an economic war has pushed millions to the brink of starvation.

The untold story of how anger became the dominant emotion in our politics and personal lives—and what we can do about it.

Millions of Americans have taken antidepressants for many years. What happens when it’s time to stop?

Lessons from the death of a venture-backed, Facebook-dependent, millennial-focused news site.

What happens when a wealthy patron wears out his welcome in the “strangest, most conflicted place in all of Texas”?

The bizarre story of what happened when Chinese crypto millionaire Justin Sun acquired BitTorrent.

A growing body of research suggests that trees can communicate and cooperate in the wild.

Behind the scenes of a viral mash-up.

The Brooklyn Nets were built to be an unbeatable superteam of eccentric basketball superstars. Will they dominate the N.B.A. playoffs?

The musician, producer and archivist is driven by one thing: a mission to spread the joy of Black music.

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

How to understand the real-world value of things that are worth nothing and everything at once.

The Interstellar director and the art of the blockbuster cult film.

A profile of the Aurora shooter.

A week in the author’s life when it became impossible to control the course of events.

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

An investigation into the death of a sacred white buffalo and the man who raised it.

A history of the Hollywood publicity racket.

On Lucille Miller, who in San Bernadino in 1964 was convicted of burning her husband to death in his Volkswagen.