A survey on where the industry is headed. Says one agency veteran: “Marketing in the future is like sex. Only the losers will have to pay for it.”

The Sackler dynasty’s ruthless marketing of painkillers has generated billions of dollars—and millions of addicts.

LGBTQI groups found rare freedoms online, but this year, many were shut by censors. It feels like slowly being sanded down, said one member.

The case against agriculture.

The story of a massacre in El Salvador.

Behind the doors of Centaurus, Rio’s most infamous brothel.

On the business of Muzak.

On the decline of nature, and our wonder at it.

The story of freelance journalist Anna Therese Day.

Inside the world of bass fishing cheaters.

On the gentle art of pipe smoking.

On the scandal of our teeming prisons.

A profile of the director.

A profile of the filmmaker.

Black excellence in the land of tennis.

The timeless allure of looking through other peoples stuff.

A 2018 profile of the tennis star.

A profile of the actor, who died Monday.

The ride-share company has 250 lobbyists and 29 lobbying firms registered in capitols around the nation, a third more than Wal-Mart Stores. Among other things.

Las Vegas is both stranger and more normal than you might imagine, and for some reason, people don’t think anyone lives there.

How a traveling medical technician managed to steal narcotics from hospitals, infecting at least 45 people with hepatitis C in the process.

“If you think the mission your country keeps sending you on is pointless or impossible and that you’re only deploying to protect your brothers and sisters in arms from danger, then it’s not the Taliban or al-Qaeda or isis that’s trying to kill you, it’s America.”

The photographer who showed us the world always kept coming back to a little town by the sea.

How the contradiction-rich “country the size of Connecticut” that birthed Al-Jazeera has played an integral and surprising role in the revolutions of the Arab Spring.

Adventures at a gathering of furries.