If you want to see what a world without Roe looks like, look at Mississippi.

Hundreds of pages of documents obtained by Motherboard show how Facebook is using the Menlo Park Police Department to reshape the city.

After six months of unrest, anti-Beijing protesters are increasingly unwilling to compromise.

How much would you pay to remove a curse on your family?

A mysterious outbreak. Hundreds of stricken schoolgirls. Was it an illness, or was something darker to blame?

How a young talent from East London went from open-mic nights to making the most sublimely unsettling show of the year.

Each year, California’s child protective services agencies remove thousands of kids from their homes. The story of how some parents decided to fight back.

Nina Compton’s adopted city knows how to ride out a storm. The pandemic plays by different rules.

How eBay’s Global Security and Resiliency team ran a rogue campaign to terrorize a blogger couple with insects, pornography and pizza.

Over the next decade, the number of elderly homeless Americans is projected to triple.

Long before the likes of Kim Kardashian, Marie Bashkirtseff sought to secure celebrity through curation of “personal brand.”

The pandemic comes to Star City, the secretive home of Russia’s space program.

The newsletter service is a software company that, by mimicking some of the functions of newsrooms, has made itself difficult to categorize.

Some teachers and students got sick. Principals had to improvise constantly. But it worked—mostly.

The Federal Writers’ Project narratives provide an all-too-rare link to our past.

On Bill May, considered to be the greatest male synchronized swimmer who ever lived, and his long quest for Olympic gold.

How warnings of AI doom gave way to primal fear of primates posting.

A century of research has demonstrated how poverty and discrimination drive disease. Can COVID push science to finally address the issue?

For some Americans, history isn’t the story of what actually happened; it’s the story they want to believe.

The theft of a deeply personal painting by René Magritte from a Belgian museum was a national tragedy. Now, an investigation points to a tragedy greater still.

For 50 years, Enthusiastic Sobriety programs have promised to help teenagers kick drug and alcohol addiction. But former followers say ES doesn’t save lives—it destroys them.

“A quarantine facial-hair experiment led me to a deep consideration of my Blackness.”

Faced with fragility and uncertainty, gig workers around the world are connecting across borders to challenge platforms’ power and policies.

The constant discomfort of a genital injury creates a covenant of pain. It is impossible to think about anything else.

The primate who ruled the news vanished again. A quest to find him led deep into Florida’s monkey kingdom.