On the plight of the baobab tree.

On the cutthroat dealings of the porta-potty business.

John Singleton at the release of Boyz n the Hood.

According to the movie version, they died side by side, guns blazing, in the crosshairs of half a Bolivian regiment. It’s a great Hollywood ending that happens to be true, mostly: they left America… then died in Bolivia. What Hollywood didn’t know is that Butch and Sundance escaped.

The disappearance of the mysterious “Pakistani asset” that helped the CIA zero in on Bin Laden.

The first article in a two-part history of the Educational Testing Service, the institution behind the SAT.

“Charlize Theron is anxious. Not greatly anxious, not distraught, but still. Anxious.”

Michelito Lagrevere is a 12-year-old Mexican matador sensation.

“Any North Korean knows that escaping their nation is nearly impossible.”

On body horror, ‘Attack of the 50 Foot Woman,’ and the growing pains of being the tall girl.

The real question is this: can I love the art but hate the artist? Can you? When I say we, I mean I. I mean you.

An oral history of the Dr. Dre album.

On the barely regulated business of looking after kids.

Inside the most sensational murder in the history of study abroad.

The scientific case for brain preservation and mind uploading.

The mystery of the Brillante Virtuoso.

A history of the New York Times Styles section.

The carpenter behind some of New York’s most elaborate—and expensive—homes

A profile of the actor.

To make sense of the Special Counsel, you have to revisit some of the bloodiest battles of Vietnam.

A profile of the greatest checkers player of all time.

Full six-part series on the rise and fall of Viktor Bout, the most notorious arms dealer of the modern era.

A brief history of churchyards, cemeteries, and the ghosts that haunt them.

How the #MeToo movement paved the way for a new era of food writing.

How climate change is altering food in Greenland.