How a fight to stop a potentially toxic Costco chicken plant in Nebraska made common cause of small-town environmentalists and anti-Muslim xenophobes.

On the history and unaccomplished mission of public broadcasting.

A profile of the diva who is proving that drag is entertainment for everyone.

A visit to the set of Lost Highway, minus an actual interview with the director.

Leïla Slimani’s best-seller explores the dark relationship of a mother and her babysitter.

An encyclopedic evisceration of the NFL owner and former Six Flags chairman.

Traveling the highway that could make Brazil an economic powerhouse — at the expense of the Amazon.

One woman’s account of clandestine meetings, financial transactions, and legal pacts designed to hide an extramarital affair.

“We are so screwed it’s beyond what most of us can imagine.”

A feat of elegant design wowed elite architects and promised to bring education to poor children in Nigeria. Then it collapsed.

Thousands of internal documents help explain how, through brutality and bureaucracy, the Islamic State stayed in power for so long.

Hannah Upp keeps disappearing, forgetting her sense of self. Can she still be found?

At Inhotim, Bernardo Paz commissioned the Jurassic Park of contemporary art. Then the Brazilian government started investigating him.

At the height of the Cold War, America’s most secretive counterespionage effort set out to crack unbreakable ciphers.

A professor schemed to get a raise and win his department’s respect. Instead, he wrecked his career.

Immigrants from Africa and the iron gateways of mass deportation.

On the ethics of putting the internet’s spotlight on a neighborhood restaurant.

Karl Friston’s free energy principle might be the most all-encompassing idea since Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection.

A profile of the woman who wants to declutter the world.

In South Carolina, civil forfeiture targets black people’s money most of all, exclusive investigative data shows.

The organization’s leadership is focused on external threats, but the real crisis is of its own making.

On growing up in Hollywood, the cost of beating Oprah at the Oscars, and why Jack Nicholson doesn’t act anymore.

Daniel Spence used dating apps to scam his way across the U.S. Could he be caught before taking over one of Brooklyn’s hottest media companies?

A romance author accused her husband of poisoning her. Was it her wildest fiction yet?