The creator of Wonder Woman makes the case for superheroes.

On the front lines of Bolsonaro’s war on the Amazon.

Life in Silicon Valley during the dawn of the unicorns.

Today, artificial intelligence and information technologies have absorbed many of the questions that were once taken up by theologians and philosophers: the mind’s relationship to the body, the question of free will, the possibility of immortality.

A profile of rapper Bun B, “the unofficial mayor of Houston.”

On the palm trees of Los Angeles.

On the narrative of sexual coercion.

On the dueling propagandists of Kiev and Moscow.

Dick Cheney and the political history of warrantless surveillance.

Was Steinbrenner’s Partner the “Madoff of Memorabilia”? Inside a collector’s hoax.

A map of the Queen of Cookbooks’ rise to power.

So many theories of laughter, so many chortles left unexplained.

A profile of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, written at the midpoint of his career.

Dominick Dunne’s account of the trial of his daughter’s murderer.

The twilight of future Hall of Famer Ichiro Suzuki.

The pandemic of violence against women, the threats online, and the harassment on the streets are ongoing. But women’s voices assumed an unprecedented power in 2014.

The dissolution of Brooklyn softcore skin-mag Jacques and the marriage of the couple that created it.

The night when Terry Thompson let his zoo-worthy collection of big animals, including lions and a bear, into the wilds of Zanesville, Ohio before shooting himself in the head.

On Huck Finn, the book Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, and the evolution of language and race in America.

Chipotle once fed the equivalent of the population of Philadelphia every day. Then the E. coli outbreak happened.

For eight hours last fall, Paradise, Calif., became a zone at the limits of the American imagination — and a preview of the American future.

The writer (Aaron Sorkin), director (David Fincher), and actors (Jesse Eisenberg & Justin Timberlake) of The Social Network on dramatizing the real story of a 20 year old into “the Citizen Kane of John Hughes movies.”

An examination of the Minutemen movement and death on the border.

The ridiculousness of trying to rank the best restaurants in the world.