The first interview with a key witness in Trump’s impeachment trial.

Survivors of China’s campaign of persecution reveal the scope of the devastation.

On Westmont College, a “feeder school” to the upper ranks of the Christian conservative movement.

Twenty years after its premiere, the filmmakers and subjects look back at “the great American documentary.”

Writing a “stunt memoir” in the waterpark capital of the world.

In the highlands of Papua New Guinea, admist a mining boom, the public torture and killing of women accused of sorcery has returned.

The author visits Camp Trans, an annual protest organized after the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival evicted a transsexual woman.

With the first on the scene of the Asiana Airlines Flight 214 disaster.

On the wandering career and sweet baritone voice of Art Laboe, the DJ behind the phrase “oldies but goodies.”

The surreal afterlife of the once-ascendant Dubai, where “the legacy of oil has made everything worthless.”

The birth of the Beastie Boys—an oral history on the 25th anniversary of Licensed to Ill.

The battle of Wanat—the most scrutinized engagement in the Afghanistan War—seen from three perspectives: a dead soldier, his father, and his commander.

The inside story of how the city, broke and bleak and nearing the edge, saved itself.

The physical rigors of pregnancy tangle with the personal ambitions of a war photojournalist, without limiting her in the least.

In 1992, a magazine story introduced the world to the photographs of Sally Mann. Here, she responds to the firestorm that article produced.

Meet Faygele ben Miriam, the radical activist “beyond the leading edge” of the same-sex marriage fight.

Frank Rich on The Promise, Jonathan Alter’s book about the first year of the Obama administration.

Scenario-based forecasts on the future of America, in the style of the C.I.A’s National Intelligence Estimate.

On water in the West, climate change, and how the birth of modern environmentalism lies at the bottom of Lake Powell.

After the explosion of the Columbia shuttle in 2003, two American astronauts aboard the International Space Station suddenly found themselves with no ride home.

The death of a submissive man-pup and the scrotal silicone injection that killed him.

The author recalls his time as a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

A new Ned Kelly film explores the masculinity behind the mask.

The resilience of Marga Griesbach, 92, who made it through the Holocaust, and set off for a cruise around the world in February.