How a lawyer from the Valley created a gossip empire.

The alt-country wunderkind turned walking disaster finds peace at 39.

David Johnson’s unrequited correspondence with Jay-Z.

Inside the multibillion-dollar business of keeping foreigners out of America.

Adult life for the autistic is littered with misunderstandings, anger, and group homes.

What do you do after you’ve already been the world’s youngest dictator?

A profile of the artist at the time of her fifth solo record.

On millionaire Forrest Lucas and his propaganda machine.

How HGTV changed a city.

A profile of Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings.

Madewell’s authenticity problem, written by the great-grandson of the company’s founder.

A trip to The Villages, a booming retiremement community outside Orlando, where the golf is free, casual sex is everywhere, and there is no cemetery.

On ISDS, the parallel legal universe created by international treaties that allows corporations to sue countries and escape punishment.

A former WikiLeaks employee on the motivations driving his old boss.

When all else failed, he commandeered a bus, and saved his neighbors. Now he’s in prison.

The process of claiming a loved one’s body after a massacre at a Kenyan university.

Making sense of the CEO’s very public tour of America, which feels like a political campaign minus the politics.

The elite Iraqi “Golden Division” was trained by the US to hunt terrorists. But now they’re locked in a brutal street battle for control of Mosul.

An email cache offers a look behind the Breitbart curtain.

What happened when Pete Buttigieg tore down houses in Black and Latino South Bend.

The inquiry into a nurse’s suicide after she was on the receiving end of a crank call.

Sexism and harassment in the freethought community and its implications for atheism’s future.

The political maneuvering behind the growth of massive consumer goods warehouses and the health hazards that often follow.

A “crude table-tennis arcade game” called Pong and the birth of the video game industry.