The legacy of late hip-hop producer Paul C.

The aftermath of a sudden death.

A profile of 6’8”, 430-pound Brian Shaw.

The role of a writer in 2017.

Making sense of a $69 million NFT.

On the rise and demise of the Segway.

The liberation of the Williams sisters.

New research upends ideas about culture’s impact on how our brains our wired.

The emerging political consciousness of Silicon Valley.

The multiple lives of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

A short but comprehensive history of solanum tuberosa.

A conversation with “the most popular human alive.”

Inside the cult appeal of the hit convenience mart/gas station Wawa.

A year with an autistic 20-year-old.

David Johnson’s unrequited correspondence with Jay-Z.

Flying straight from the future.

“We know we down in this shithole together.”

A profile of philosopher Timothy Morton.

For those who suffer from environmental illnesses, the town of Snowflake is an escape from a modern world full of allergens: fragrances, gluten, wifi.

A full-issue length, 42,000-word history of the dissolution of the Middle East, from the invasion of Iraq 13 years ago until present.

How the children of African immigrants came to control the destiny of teams in France and Belgium and what it says about European identity.

Climate change is propelling enormous human migrations as it transforms global agriculture and remakes the world order — and no country stands to gain more than Russia.

In 1936, Karp Lykov whisked his family into the Siberian wilderness to escape Bolshevik persecution. They remained there, alone, until discovered by a helicopter crew in 1978.

A profile of Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, the Malibu-dwelling, “fantastically corrupt” dictator-in-waiting of Equatorial Guinea. Teodorin, as his friends call him, is considered by U.S. intelligence to be “an unstable, reckless idiot.”